Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:58:21 -0800 Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> wrote: > John Hudson wrote: > snip > > >Usually, but not exclusively. I use Leicas for the bodies, not the lenses. > > > If I lost my M6s, and could only replace them with some totally redesigned > > >modern M7, chances are that I would trade in my lenses. Alternatively, I > > >wouldn't dream of trying to fit a Leica lens onto any of my other Japanese > > >cameras, even if it were possible. The alternative optics are simply not > > >that significantly inferior to make that big a fuss over, IMHO. > > > > > >And a photograph is just a photograph. There is not such thing as "Leica" > > >photographs, or "nikon" photographs, etc. There has to be more to the > > >content of a photograph then microscopic clues as to which optical system > > >produced it. Otherwise, what is the point to photography? > > > > > >Again, IMHO. > > > > This has got to be one of the most intelligent messages ever to appear on > > this list. > > > > Again, IMHO. > > > > jh > Intelligent? Yes,,,, accurate? yes.....will it be accepted by the "faithful"? You gotta be kidding.....ya know, these guys can spot a Leica photograph taken by a four-year-old, printed by a machine printer, in the dark, at 100 paces (staggering drunk)....there has to be SOME self-justification for the kind of self-abuse, monetary and emotional, as well as the well documented abuse by Leica themselves.... oh, yeah, they fix all the problems....problems that occur fifty times as often as with the competition.....OOPS, did it again, forgot.....there IS no competition..... Walt