Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I must say that I find this response a bit strange. *I'm* an academic, and I have a pretty good sense, I think, of what it takes to sustain a "modern, hi-tech, etc" company, I think. I worked for Steve Ciarcia back in the old days of -Byte- and "Circuit Cellar" as a grad student in American Studies. I'm always a bt amazed, especially following the smart, informed, and interesting comments of Erwin and Marc and a host of others, to see this sort of mean-spirited vitrol (see, I can do it, too, as I suppose, we all could). I'm pretty happy with my G system RFs. I'm not sure that I'd be willing to pay five K for one, though, which seems to be the direction Leica invariably takes. Who else will charge $30 for a plastic rear element or body cap, $60 for a nylon strap, and the like? Which I take to be principal point of the comment that provoked this distemper. Chandos >Time marches on. Technology marches on. Only people from academia, or those >with their heads buried in the sand, don't understand what is required to >sustain a modern, hi-tech, public company, competing on the world market. >Hint... it's not producing more M2's. More hint... it's producing R8's, >M7's, ASPH, and APO products, as well as, state of the art digital >photography apparatus. > >I'm not sure I know where you get the guts to tell everyone out here that >we are all stupid and you are not. But you certainly are entitled to your >OWN opinions. And you may indeed voice them. Actually, the LUG wants you to >voice them. However, it seems like you are may be swimming upstream for a >very long time. > >good luck, > >Jim > >PS... after you finally reach the spawning pool, and have a grip on >photographic life in general, as it is on this planet (you will learn this >while swimming upstream,) we will still be here and will welcome your >comments and interjections. Don't be a stranger. But please make sure that >the brain is engaged before the fingers begin to type. Please do not forget >that the LUG is made up of very very seasoned world class professional >photographers, photographic educators, all the way down to someone picking >up a camera for the first time, and everything in between. You, I'm sure, >fit in here somewhere. >http://www.photoaccess.com >Jim Brick, ASMP, BIAA >Photo Access >(650) 470-1132 >Visual Impressions Publishing >Visual Impressions Photography >(408) 296-1629 > Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http://www.resnet.wm.edu/~cmbrow/