Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: "To keep this on-topic: I paid a careful look at the press center that was set up especially for the occasion and noticed only a single (elderly) guy with a battered Leica (an R4 or R5 I guess) on a monopod... An overwhelming majority of Canon and Nikon AF stuff, howeve. And, LOTS of digital (especially Nikon D1. The future is here already :-)" I won't speak for the rest of Europe, but in the UK the D1 is *IT* as far as press work's concerned. The big papers have closed their wet labs, the images go to the picture desk via landline or GSM 'phone. If it isn't digital it isn't in tomorrow's paper. - -- David Morton dmorton@journalist.co.uk "The more opinions you have, the less you see." -- Wim Wenders.