Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas Barry wrote: >I presume it is now in terms of users, but in terms of being the cutting >edge and dominant tool as interpreted by its press corps usage, when was it? IDK about dominance, but I recall during the late 1960s and early 1070s the press at Vietnam War protests often had a Nikon F or two for longer lenses and a Leica M for shorter lenses. >Do we owe Leica worship to HCB, or to whom - a clever early marketeer in >Solms? If it was clever marketing it wasn't Solms, it would have been Wetzlar. IIRC it was lens worship more than marketing. I certainly noticed a big difference between my Nikkors and the Leica-R and LTM lenses available to me at the time. I loved how the cameras felt in my hands, too: a Leicaflex Standard and a IIIg with vertical alignment and slow-speed issues. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com