Unfortunately, I went right to the part where he describes his equipment ("valued at over $45,000"). First, he says he has several "rare museum pieces", including "a Pentax Spotmatic". Okay, I know some of them (like the motor drive version) are pretty rare, but "museum pieces"? I read on...
He then says that he has, among other cameras, "a new Leica M9" (it must be very new, since as you all know, Leica is only up to M7 <vbg>), with a "$5,000 Leica 300 [sic] Summicaron [sic] lens. Now, I don't know much about Leicas or their lenses, but (a) you wouldn't use a 300mm lens on a rangefinder (which an M series would be), and (b) he spelled "Summicron" wrong, and (c), I don't even know if Leica makes an f2.0 300mm lens for it's R series, but I bet it'd be worth more than $5000.
Whatever, since they screwed up so bad in just a few paragraphs (he obviously didn't do his research, which is unforgivable if the damned book is supposed to be ~about~ a photographer), I couldn't read it.
But, my roomate, who's fairly well-read (moreso than me - an admittedly low standard <g>), said it was a good yarn. If you can get past the errors, you might enjoy it. I, however, wasn't about to give the author the satisfaction. <vbg>
cheers, frank
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From: "Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: OT: Best photography novel? Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:34:18 -0500
I got a B&N gift card for Christmas so I'm looking for book reccomendations.
What's the best novel (fiction) anyone has read where photography is a central part. ie: the main character is a photographer?
I've already bought 2 sci-fi books about Mars (i've never read science fiction but I'm excited about these two novels).
TIA
Christian
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