Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/09/11

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Subject: [Leica] S snapshots
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:05:07 -0700
References: <CE5575CC.104A0%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> A long long time ago Leica gear became an unaffordable waste to discuss on
> the lug as soon as Cosina made bodies and lenses cheaper and earlier to buy
> and sell and buy and sell.
> 
> The Leica S gets less attraction on the lug Geoff And you're right the
> Fuji and Olympus 1.5 crop rangefinders gets the continual day by day
> headlines.  
> The key is getting quality on something called a camera which doest make 
> for
> completely embarrassing oneself. The sensor has to be bigger than your 
> pinky
> toenail.
> But mainly the idea  going big here is a disposable consumer camera you buy
> and trade three times a year
> 
> not the $21,950.00 investment the Leica S is.




I just finished my little talk on Robert Doisneau, for today's photography 
class. So wonderful, I couldn't stop piling in further images for the class 
to enjoy. Doisneau didn't shoot with a Leica S which seems worth mentioning, 
as we talk about this camera and some mediocre images from it, while Mark 
voices his usual views.





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