Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wasn't speaking of the MP or M7, but the Leicas that you design yourself looks-wise. Wasn't that just about the only offering they had at Photokina? Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel Lowi Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:30 PM To: lug@leica-users.org Subject: [Leica] Re: Zeiss Ikon Jeffery Smith wrote: > > Maybe it will get them....moving (on something other > than designer > cameras.) > There's no way anybody can call the M7 or the MP designer cameras. They are in my opinion the best Leicas ever made and therefore among the finest photo-making tools ever. How many of you have used either long enough to discover that truth? What is astonishing to me is how such numbers of previously professed Leica users are rushing like fools towards the alleged pleasures of digital masturbation, like a bunch of 12-year-old schooboys. And wasn't it here that we've read for years about how nobody likes red dots, wants black paint or vulcanite or fewer framelines or less plastic or the old classy engraving? So here you got it with "a la carte," as the icing on the cakes of two wonderful M cameras, and now there's nothing but sneering here about "designer cameras" ? So keep pushing and pulling on the sticky knobs and buttons attached to those battery-swallowing LCD screens. Just don't go crying when Leica withers for no good reason other than the need of so many to wank around with the latest mod con. Emanuel Lowi Montreal ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information