Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/06

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Subject: [Leica] Re: 90mm's
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Tue Jun 6 07:27:11 2006
References: <8D91A059-4463-4B81-926F-3CF2F7D29438@mac.com> <44851B5B.8722.65365B@localhost> <F787A63B-FAB4-4863-8F45-7763378DC9CC@cox.net>

?sch ...

If he had a lens or two over, redundant, he would probably have sold
them and bet on horses.

Daniel


On 6/6/06, Steve Barbour <kididdoc@cox.net> wrote:
> On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:06 AM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:
>
> > By all accounts there was never a single day in Capa's career when he
> > could have AFFORDED a shi*load of redundant lenses.  He would
> > therefore not have known if there might be some significant advantage
> > to having them.
>
> I suspect there was a significant advantage for Capa... not having
> many redundant lenses. He was out there with a lens and a camera
> actually  taking photos (when he wasn't doing other things) ...not
> making the wrenching decision... "what outfit do I use today ?".....
>
>
> Steve
>
>
> >   Carry on with the collecting; if nothing else you'll
> > have an extremely intriguing assortment of paperweights one day.
> >
> > On 5 Jun 2006 at 21:07, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >
> >> Ouch!
> >>
> >> On Behalf Of Robert
> >> Schneider
> >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 9:02 PM
> >> To: Leica Users Group
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: 90mm's
> >>
> >>
> >> He also never said, "If your pictures aren't good enough, you need a
> >> shi*load of redundant lenses."
> >>
> >> On Jun 5, 2006, at 9:57 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> Capa never said "If your pictures aren't good enough, you need a
> >>> 90."
> >>>
> > --
> >
> >
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> >
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In reply to: Message from schneiderpix at mac.com (Robert Schneider) ([Leica] Re: 90mm's)
Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] Re: 90mm's)
Message from kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour) ([Leica] Re: 90mm's)