Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Mr. Two Dots and Dash, I normally wouldn't respond to a post like this but added to your previous scams and assorted clutter it has attracted my attention. Isn't it amazing that anyone ever took a picture at all with such lumps of coal as Leica R cameras. I guess Sebastio Salgado, Louis Castaneda, Hideki Fujii, Ted and Eric and numerous others are just etching their shots on sheet rock. On that matter, what does the NUMBER of pro's using a camera have to do with its usability as a photo tool? Taxicab drivers use Chevy Caprices, but I sure as hell don't want to drive one....I don't care if the guys driving them are "pros". I think your pattern of posts indicates you have neither used nor owned an R camera, or possibly a Leica at all. Finally, if you can gaurantee me a Pulitzer I will change brands, until then I'll stick with my "worthless" R cameras. Dan States > >The Nikon 300 2.8 AIS is one of the best lens ever manafuctured. The >sharpness and resolution are incredible. Before anyone says that the Leica >conterpart is of a equal or greater quality. Lets look at the use this >lens >is put through. Most user of this lens are sports photographers and at the >same time some of the most memorable photos in sports photography have been >taken with a Nikon and to a lesser extent Canon. Here im taking about SLR >not M-Leica. Also no Pulitzer prize has ever been awarded to a photo taken >with a Leica SLR. Because Leica-SLR are not up to the punishment put on >them by pros not the 5 rolls a year shooters which most of the lugger are. >Any ways Leica has great optics but the SLR bodies have second rate >features. No compact tough motors or even removable finders and their >metering system is a shame given the price of their bodies. They have no >technology when it comes to SLR bodies and because of this it makes the >lens >worthless. Its like having a Ferrari engine in a Yugo. I like to here >comments on the death of the Leica SLR bodies or better yet when are they >going to be born. > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com