Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:12:54 -0500

When I took his Project workshop in Santa Fe last summer, Sam was using 
Olympus cameras.  He mentioned that he used to use Leicas but he likes the 
metering and auto-focus of the Olympus.

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com


At 10:43 PM 1/29/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Can anyone answer my firends' questions...?
>
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
>In his wonderful book "Stay This Moment", National Geographic photographer
>Sam Abell notes that his images came from "lenses between 24mm and 90mm" and
>from both Leica R- and M-Series systems.
>
>Does anyone know what Abell's preferred system was/is?  M or R?  I really
>love the quality of his images.

Replies: Reply from "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> (Re: [Leica] FW: Sam Abell's Leica cameras?)