[Leica] [WTB] Summicron 35mm f/2 3rd or 4th version

[roland_cpa at yahoo.com (Roland Smith)]

Mark Rabiner said,  rangefinder photography is "all about possibilities not 
limitations."
 
Mark I can't agree with you more.  At the start of my photography, I used a 
Leica with a 50mm and a 90mm lens.  I wanted more focal length and moved to 
a single lens reflex system with zoom lenses.  After a stiff neck, noisy 
shutter & mirror and slow speed camera shake, I went back to a rangefinder 
Leica with a great diversity of lenses.  I'll never go away from rangefinder 
cameras for 35mm. What a great difference in quality.
 
Roland Smith
Dublin, California  

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2008 4:08:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] [WTB] Summicron 35mm f/2 3rd or 4th version

> 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



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