Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 21:18 US/Pacific, Eric Welch wrote: > Actually there are. Photo District News did a professional survey some > years ago for 35mm cameras and it was ranked: Nikon at number one, > Canon came in second and Leica was third (with 12 percent of pros > owning one.) I spent a lot of time shooting demonstrations during the run up and beginning of the war and prior to that the big demonstration here in Los Angeles with the whole business in Jenin etc. Over the course of the weeks I saw the following: 90-95% were shooting digital. The vast majority of them young guys and gals. I estimate it was a 60/40 split with Canon outnumbering Nikon. 2-3% were only shooting film. These were mostly veterans with beat up Nikons and oddly enough several foreign journalists with Nikon F5 and F3. One guy with the current top gun Minolta. I saw the vast majority of film shooters during the big Feb 15th rally in Hollywood. Maybe 5 of the guys with a digital camera also had an M6. Everyone of them that I got to speak to had b/w film in it. I believe all of them had a 35 Summicron ASPH. Most of them were not from the US. 1 guy had, if I remember correctly, one or two R8 and one or two M6 and no digital. No, it wasn't Ted. 3 people shot Leica M. One male, two female. The guy had two or three M6 with winders (new electric type). One girl had two M6 and an xPan. All three cameras were beaten to hell and she was, well cute. One woman in her mid thirties or forties had an M6 with a 35 ASPH and a new type motorwinder, all fairly worn. She was interesting, because she looked like a real New Yorker. I don't count, because I'm not a working pro, just a hack. I had an M2/35, M6TTL/50DR/90 Cron, IIIc/VC21mm and at one point also an R6.2/50 ...all Tri-X. The IIIc got a lot of double takes... Feli ______________________________________________________ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin feli2@earthlink.net - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html