[Leica] LUG Year Book

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

My impression is the number of people here on the Lug shooting with Leica's 
has gone up in part with the huge boom the Leica company has gone through 
coming out with four new cutting edge innovative camera systems giving all 
kinds of options some not in the pie in the sky financial range. Maybe we 
should do a survey on what people are shooting with?
New Systems:
1. SL-series (full-frame sensor) But M and R adaptors for it.
2. TL- and CL-series (APS-C sensor with matched lenses) (M and R adaptors)
3. S-series reflex (digital medium format)
4. Q-series (Brian's new camera)
I was bothered with the first Yearbook issues so few Luggers bothering to 
get out their old Leica's and makes some images for their yearbook 
submissions instead just using their more easy friendly cheap everyday 
cameras. But I've gotten used to it. Me. I submitted mainly Leica images.
I would draw the line on cell phone photos in the LUG yearbook....even if 
one comes out with a red dot on it. 
I think if you're interested in photography it should compel you to put your 
cellphone down for 40 seconds long enough to get the shot with a camera 
around your neck or in your side bag. Keep in mind you can talk and text as 
you shoot the pix with a camera. But not if you're using the camera in your 
cell phone.

But the big news being the Leica L mount which by next issue will make a big 
dent in the way things are going down with people using real Leica glass on 
all kinds of cameras and all kinds of glass on their Leica cameras of 
various brand names like Panasonic and Sigma for starters both in full frame 
and 1.5x cropped. This is going to make for more Leica stuff making images 
going into the yearbook. If not the camera than the lens
I'll be using a new Nikkor lens on a current Nikon DSLR. I'm excited about 
my work and that?s now I'm doing it.
But I can see the L mount making it much more possible to start getting back 
to using Leica products. 
And it's looking real good for getting my existing case of M glass going 
especially as I'm more open now to cropped (1.5x) sensors.


 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

?On 9/22/19, 12:32 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden via LUG" 
<lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at 
leica-users.org> wrote:

    I have come to the decision not to participate unless it is a LEICA 
yearbook and not a yearbook of general photographs taken on everything there 
is. If non-Leica images are deemed to be acceptable by others making 
decisions, then at the very least there should be a clear differentiation 
(i.e. a separate section) for the non-Leica images at the back of the book 
after the Leica section.
    
    As for general thoughts on the time frame, and because a number of 
people are shooting less with their Leicas, would it be an idea for these to 
be done every five years thus allowing for a (hopefully) bigger submission.
    
    Gerry
    
    Gerry Walden
    www.gwpics.com
    +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
    +44 (0)797 287 7932
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    > On 22 Sep 2019, at 05:13, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> 
wrote:
    > 
    > 
    >> Just sharing my thoughts about this. Of course Brian will be holding 
the
    >> mike and have the final say.
    > 
    > The reason I haven't announced anything yet is that I've been hoping 
that more people will offer suggestions or express opinions.
    > 
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