[Leica] New R Solution?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I don't respect WHAT?!?!

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Lottermoser George <imagist3 at mac.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:51:58 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New R Solution?
> 
> Mark,
> 
> you give me the feeling that you measure "respect" for SLR systems by the
> quantity of a particular brand which you see bunched up at event shooting
> galleries;
> instead of the quality of the, yes fewer, professional photographers who 
> both
> respect and choose Leica 35mm reflex camera systems over their five 
> decades of
> production.
> 
> Look up David Douglas Duncan's "Self-Portrait U.S.A."
> <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/publications/selfportrait.html>
> He shot the 68 conventions with both Leica SL's and Nikon Ftn's; yet 
> credits
> the 400 mm 1:6.8 Telyt on his SL with giving him the 1968 political
> conventions "on a platter". Even at f/6.8, it was just fast enough, and 
> just
> hand-holdable enough, to shoot at 1/125th wide-open under the TV lights.
> 
> Here he is using the kit
> <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/gallery/dddportraits/222.html>
> 
> And here the photographs made with that kit:
> <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/gallery/conventions/republican.
> html>
> <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/gallery/conventions/democratic.
> html>
> 
> If you click through the numerous historical portraits of DDD
> 
<http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/web/ddd/gallery/dddportraits/index.html>
>
> you'll see he also "respected" Leica M's, Rollei's, Graflex's, and more.
> 
> Perhaps you don't "respect" DDD's particular opinion on Leica reflex 
> camera;
> or the opinions of thousands of other professionals around the world
> who've earned their livings and reputations
> while shooting with Leica reflex cameras and lenses.
> 
> Yet, somehow, now, you're convinced that the Leica S2,
> only months out of the gate, with its limited lens range availability,
> is the greatest SLR in the world.
> 
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> 
> 
> On Sep 7, 2010, at 10:07 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
> 
>> Not the R system which didn't get
>> much respect.
> 
> 
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