Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> GREG LORENZO <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> For someone starting out with a Leica camera with a limited budget >> Zeiss glass makes sense. If you can buy a used Zeiss 35 from a >> reputable seller and keep it in good condition it will hold its value. > > IMHO, if you don't think you'll have the $$$$ for the optimum lens soon, > it's better to buy a lens you can afford now and start taking pictures > rather than have no lens because you don't have the money for the optimum > lens. Think of the pictures and experience you'll miss. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > Most of us move up to Leica though. We don't just start out there. I had a Nikon SLR system before I started thinking what Leica rangefinder might do for my work. I thought going in: No motor drive No longer lenses. No macro. I was wrong of course on all counts. Proving my axiom: IT'S ALWAYS WHAT YOU DON'T THINK. I had my nikon system to fall back on for many years till most the cracks in my lens line for my M were filled up. And I realized that rangefinder photography was all about possibilities not limitations. But I forgot nowadays the way its done by most people is sell the entire nikon system on eBay to pay for the first Bessa body with third party glass and call it my "Leica system". With no turning back. No continuity. And in the end I'm sure no body of work. Just a money trail. And a fixed amount of our total net worth tied up in semi liquid "photo assets". Mark William Rabiner markrabiner.com