Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]" Magnum Photos has announced a "technological and photographic collaboration" with Leica that will see the camera manufacturer "sponsor the creation of a series of independently produced multimedia essays" by Magnum's photographers" The fine print says that when Leica gives the Magnum photographer money for a project it will offer to supply them free with an M9 and glass but they are also free to use their own DSLR. In the British Journal of Photography where I read it first as an email which I clicked on and it brought me to their website then on the magazine rack their hard copy edition which I saw for the first time this month. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2028543/magnum -photos-partners-leica Or http://tinyurl.com/3jroa3w > From: Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:05:38 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another R option (now M9) > > Do you have any first hand knowledge of this? Or is fact this published > anywhere? > > > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > Leica is now paying Magnum photographers to be seen with M's in their hands > and calling it a "Partnership". > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information