Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don Dory sed: >The real point is that many of us are using camera's and lenses 40 to 60 >years old as if they were fresh out the box, no worries. The images are >competitive, if we want to spend more money we can get state of the art >lenses and use them on cameras 47 years old, or vice versa if we want an old >look with new hardware. I don't think any system out there can take the >pounding that these Leica's take and keep ticking. This includes the N**** F. bah! i have a kodak #2 folding hawkeye from 1914 that's still working as well as the day it came out of the box, never CLA'd once! i never even wiped the lens off. actually, some years ago, through terrible misfortune, it became my only camera for about eight months and i was able to keep shooting, exhibiting and even publishing. albeit, my work changed a little, but i figured i was the only magazine photographer in the country shooting with a kodak folding 6x9.... it was actually a lot of fun. i'm not sure if it loads faster or slower than a iiic, maybe a contest is in order.... http://elvis.rowan.edu/~cassidy/images/iris.jpg kc - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html