Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey, Mark...when is it? Do you plan to incorporate some Reedie madness? trish > From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com> > Organization: Mark Rabiner Photography > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 13:13:00 -0800 > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon EOS for Leica > >> <Snip> >> >> I concur, except I feel the same way WITH or WITHOUT the M camera....I >> gag everytime I see any 'modern' gear. (or "R" gear, but that's another >> thread) >> >> Only Nikon and (recently) Canon 35mm gear have gained the approval of the >> pros...I'm sorry, the Leicaflex nor the "R" gear ever gained a place, tho >> the quality is SUPERB...the M gear, however, has a 'niche' place with pro >> PJs, >> as a (very) secondary system...at least here in the US.... >> >> Walt >> > > The first job i got in Portland when i came here from college in 1975 was for > a > guy - a master photographer Sjef Wildshut who was shooting all the Jantzen > Catalogs http://www.jantzen.com/jznecom/ with a Leicaflex when he wasn't using > the Hasselblad. This was the first time i ever saw a fashion photographer > work. > This account kept him pretty busy year round. > Later on when i saw other fashion photographers using Nikons it felt to me > like > THEY were the ones using the weird stuff. > > Next year the LHSA meeting will be here, Walt, in Portland Oregon. > Needless to say you are personally invited as is this whole list. > (Its worth joining just to get the VF.) > Some perhaps kinder gentler folks running the show now. Younger I guess. > People you've not had the time to offend yet! Fresh blood!!! > > Check the masthead in the front of the VF (Viewfinder) and you'll see lots of > new names. > I am the new Program Director! > > Eric Bohman has taken ill. > Rolf Fricke had the position for a couple of decades. > I am humbled and i am totally keyed into making a terrific friendly Saturday > program in Portland and then my college town the following year: the > stupendous > St. Louis. > > COME ON DOWN and make some new enemies! > > Walt i think you'd LOVE to hang out with us and i KNOW we'd love to have you. > Bring your Pentax. > > Mark Rabiner > > Portland, Oregon > USA > > http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/ > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html