Jeff

It's dusty and dirty ... at a minimum, you'll want this as a backup lens. But more importantly, the 40-150 is in the sweet spot for this type of shooting. Sure, everyone likes a closeup for which ...

Thank you.

I did a search and found several such groups on Facebook. Is there a specific one you had in mind?

AlanG -- thanks for the story. That was about my memory too. By the late '60's SLR's were taking over the industry. TTL metering was a big deal, especially using long or ultrawide lenses.

The...

digilt -- just found some info. In 1969 the MSRP for an M4 was $309 body only. Another $150 would buy you a lens. A consumer grade Minolta would be about half that. The same camera is about...

Yake ... in terms of camera electronics, before autofocus there was through-the-lens (TTL) metering that started to appear in the 1960's. Ironically, it came out first on the Nikon SPX...

You have to realize that, at one time, Leica was not a niche brand. They were in the mainstream, carried by many camera dealers with prices slightly higher than Canon or Nikon, slightly less than...

This is an old geezer talking ... you had to have been there. Leica earned it's reputation in the hands of great masters of the 20th century ... Capa, Eisenstadt, Khaldei, Smith, Davidson....

Carl -- 'always been overrated'? With due respect, Hardly. In 1969 an M4 with Summilux 50/1.4 sold for $547. You could get a Nikon F with 1.4 and prism for a little less, but not much less. The...

Having cut my teeth (photographically speaking) on Leica in the 1960's, I have an enormous nostalgic attachment to the red dot. The M3, the M4, Summacron 50/2, the Leica enlarger were sweet, sweet...

princecody ... sure, there are real tradeoffs and issues that come with a cloud subscription model. There are also significant benefits. Among them, I find it more economical to budget $10/month...

$10/month for LR + Photoshop is too much? Guess you preferred to the good old days of $699 for PS + $149 for LR + regular upgrades.

No software is perfect, but after using CC for a while, I'd...

My archive is about 1.2TB that goes back a number of years. The way I'm managing via LR Classic CC is to keep that on an external drive with Time Machine (apple) backup to a second external drive....

How about providing remote access to your photo library?

I must be the only person in the DPR-universe who actually likes CC. Saw this post on DPR -- updated my Mac in about 2 minutes flat, checked my phone and tablet which had already auto-updated. ...