Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Like many of the LUG member's I am an advanced amateur. One of my "Real" jobs is as a Tax Accountant. I have had many Pro Photographer clients...seems once your name gets out that you are a photographer that does taxes the referrals just roll in....All the "News" guys and gals shot with whatever the paper supplied them with...Nikon/Canon exclusively...almost all said their favorite personal camera was a Nikon F...a few liked the Leica M, one Contax and almost none Canon. One client would not talk of anything except "Hassy's" (High profile wedding photographer). The next year...the Hassy's became junk! He had just bought 6 of those early Kodak digitals built on an F5 body...$12k apiece if I recall? He offered me his Hassy collection for a "deal" Right... He was selling them at 80% of their original cost, and they were beat to death....off course he had already written them off on his taxes. The next year it was the Kodaks that were all junk. Dunno what he shoots with now...I moved out of the Bay area 5 years ago. I have one guy that did switch from Contax to Leica R to Nikon D1 (His clients demanded the change). He now shoots with the Digital R and is thinking of a D 200 or D2x....