[Leica] Re: "I think it's going to be all right" - transposedto Canon, Nikon, etc. etc.

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Robert

I thought I was the only one willing to admit putting cheap-assed 
(B&W@40 bucks a pop) filters over my pristine Leica glass? It seems as 
if there are more of us out there. Come on boys and girls! Its time to 
open that closet door and jump out swinging. This does not include the 
Leicaphiles sans filters who always have lens caps in their pockets. We 
all know what they do to image quality. :-)

Walt

Robert Schneider wrote:

> I have quality-destroying UV filters on all my lenses, Leica, Canon,  
> Xpan, etc., so I am certainly not averse to another layer of glass on  
> my optics.  But telling photographers that they have to shell out  
> $150 per filter for each M lens they own just to get their camera to  
> work the way it is intended to work strikes me as grotesque.
>
> To me it's simple: If the camera's above-average infrared sensitivity  
> is not documented in the M8 instruction manual, if the need for an  
> infrared cutoff filter when photographing people wearing clothes is  
> not documented in the M8 instruction manual, then the camera is, in  
> fact, defective.  It does not function as it was intended to function.
>
> I am astonished that many people who bought this camera are making  
> excuses for Leica rather than storming the gates in Solms.  A  
> serious, EXPENSIVE, digital camera from any other manufacturer would  
> have its users howling for blood, or at least a permanent, internal,  
> non-half-assed fix.
>
> If the Canon D30 or EOS1d had come to market with imaging defects on  
> the order of those in the Leica M8, I suspect that Canon might not be  
> the alpha dog in the digital realm.
>
> IMO, YMMV, IOKIYAR, YYSSW, etc., etc.
>
> rs
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