Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just what are we intending to celebrate? 1) Excellence of photography 2) Excellence of Leica products as a) lenses b) cameras c) both together Stretching a combination of 1 + 2 could even mean something excellent from a photographic point of view, but shot with a Holga carried in a Leica bag :-) The optical excellence of Leica is what puts the (technically) ideal image on film or sensors, the excellence of photography is provided by the photographer. Leica cameras do not automatically make you take better pictures. The Leica body as such is simply a light-tight (hopefully) box carrying the medium for recording images - it may be technologically advanced in some ways or another, but it still only fulfils this simple purpose with additional aids for enabling the photographer to focus precisely and, in later models, to do without an external exposure meter. For me, this is reason enough to vote for Leica lenses as the rule. My two-pennorth Douglas Mark Rabiner wrote: > At first when I read Teds thing yesterday on all Leica glass I was thinking > that I felt exactly the same about it. I was remembering how when you go on > a tour of Leica the first thing the guy says is LEICA IS A LENS COMPANY. > But Peter in this post has altered my viewpoint. > And I must say my opinion is now strongly this: > > Either a Leica camera or lens should be used. > Preferably both but one or the other would do. > > That would be my rule if I was running it. > Which I'm aware I am not. > But I get to express my opinion. > > Leica use has always involved Nikkor and Canon and Russian lenes and God > knows what else lenses and now we'd not want to excluded the Voigtl?nder > brand made by Cosina made now some of which are exquisite. > > But if I shoot with my 60 dollar Bessa L made by Cosina I think I should > put > a Leica LTM lens on the front of it. > Leitz probably. > To enter it into the 100 year Leica thing. > Wouldn't kill me. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > >> From: Peter Klein <pklein@threshinc.com> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> >> Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:34:22 -0800 >> To: <lug@leica-users.org> >> Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica 100 Years >> >> I'd like to participate. I'd also like to express a different viewpoint >> regarding the requirements: I think we should *not* restrict ourselves to >> 100% Leica, just that either a Leica lens or body be used in taking the >> picture. Just as we did with FOM2. Here's why: >> >> 1. Unless all pictures must be taken specifically for the project, we may >> not remember exactly what lens was used on what body when. I almost >> always >> use Leica bodies, but my lens kit is "ethnically" mixed. I've used >> Leitz/Leica, VC, Nikkor, Canon, and Sovyetsii RF lenses. Do I really have >> to eliminate some of my best shots if I'm not 100% sure that the lens >> speaks, proper German? >> >> 2. HCB used a Sonnar on his Leica until he got his Summicron. David >> Douglas Duncan used LTM Nikkors in Korea. Yet they are often referred to >> as "Leica photographers." Would we eliminate them as being insufficiently >> pure? >> >> Are we commemorating the Leica company or "The Leica Way" of >> photographing? I can play either way, but I think we might be missing out >> on some good pictures if we are too restrictive. >> >> --Peter >> >> >> >> >>> Very definitely 100% Leica - Digital or analog - Glass and Body., new >>> technology or film as old as Leica I. I'd consider using both my IIIA >>> and >>> my M8.2. It might be nice to include a very short biography and photo of >>> the photographers holding their camera- Most of us might be able to sum >>> up >>> our life in a few lines. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >