Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have on my shelf all the yearbooks up to the last one (2014), and I have always followed the self-imposed rule that at least the lens should be Leica. Checking the 2014 edition, I have one film picture shot with a Voigtl?nder Bessa R2M and a 90mm Tele-Elmarit, and one shot with the M8 and the 35mm Summarit-M. So more or less ticks all boxes. Needless to say, both photos were made during 2014. By then the bulk of my photography was done with non-Leica stuff, but for the yearbook I wanted only Leica images. But again, this is my self-imposed rule, which I will follow for the 2019 edition regardless of how much leeway Brian gives us. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 24 Sep 2019, at 17:14, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > I kinda felt that was pretty obvious for years as we are the Leica Users > Group to use the Leica we'd be using to put in the yearbook but was > solidly shot down like I was saying the Earth was flat. The first issues > were all about getting the thing going in terms of volume I was told so we > should not be too picky and the following issue would be Leica. That > didn?t happen. But lots more money for the charity. > All of the years I entered I put two pix in one was a Leica shot the other > was a Nikon shot. > As I recall a just as big question for entries for the first issues was > film vs digital with many feeling at least one of your entries should be > film based. Mine was. I got scans made from film I shot with one of my > M6's on color neg. > It was nice the first issues being able to put pix to the names I'd see > posting every week but few were walking the Leica walk as well as talking > the Leica talk. It seemed just a bit lame. But when I first got on the LUG > most the the main posters had not owned a Leica for years and had great > reasons for how non practice they are as you can't take a proper photo > without auto focus and so on. Then people started all having websites and > galleries to put their images on and the only ones we'd see of these > people were recent digital captures. No scans from film. > > Another item was how current the pix needed to be.. Mine were shot that > year right out of the camera hot off the press. Though I have a backlog of > a decade of having my M6's and IIIF's being my main cameras many hundreds > of rolls of film and prints. > But I do think it should be current not the best Leica shot you ever made > in your whole life; or your past Leica life. > I was often told I was not a Leica person as my recent work has been Nikon > I think my body of work says otherwise. I still have all my cameras and > glass. The glass will be on a mirrorless body soon enough. Maybe a cropped > format though. Which to me is very non Leica but I'm going to fly with it. > > > -- > > Mark William Rabiner > Photographer >