Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, But that was for a mechanical camera that would last a lifetime, not an electronic gizmo with a limited shelf life. Things will go wrong with PCBs... Cheers Jayanand Ted Grant wrote: > Walt Johnson offered: > Subject: Re: [Leica] 2500 ISO > >>>> I absolutely couldn't agree with you more about these new M8's. If >>> >> someone could show me a real advantage to $5000 cameras maybe.<<<< > > > Hi Walt, > Yeah it's expensive, but slip back a few years.... maybe late '50's > early '60 and buying a Leica was considered.... "Holy Cow you paid > what for that little thing?" attitude amongst the press guys I worked > with. > > But I had to have one, then another and another as my tools making my > assignment ratio climb like crazy. And I had lots of economic > arguments about spending money for bodies and lenses, but! I began to > shoot better photographs, see differently and shot where others feared > to shoot without blasting a twinkie light or two. > > As often as I've had to swallow hard at the Leica price on many > occasions, it's always been the "value of the tool" and not what it > cost. It's what it allowed me to do that counted, period. > > Yep 5 grand will buy you a lot of tri-x. But if you don't have the > right tools at hand that allow you to shoot what motivates you, then > the film is a throw away. No? > > And like you I can't imagine wrecking an M8 as I too would cry all the > way to the repair shop, bank, and pharmacist. Or maybe that should > be... Bank, repair shop and padded cell! ;-) > > ted > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >