Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With Leica, you can have a prized 1959 camera body yet get results that only became possible in the '90s with modern lens manufacturing techniques and films. In an era when even BMWs are designed to be sent to the recycler and none of the hot new dot-zero product releases seem to work, the Leica M stands out as not a consumer good, but a DURABLE good. I expect to employ a mix-and-match approach with my system in the future: Items like the 15mm Heliar are no-brainers, because they have no competition. Leica's job shall be to convince me in other cases that their higher prices are well justified and that in the end, Leica is the best value. (value = smiles/$) - -- Jeff Segawa Boulder, Colorado www.boulder.net/~4season "B. D. Colen" wrote: > > DR. BLACKTAPE RAISES A HERETICAL QUESTION AFTER READING BILL ERFURTH'S > THOUGHTFUL POST... > > Assuming that the rangefinder world grows exponentially as is now being > rumored; assuming that Nikon comes out with an updated version of the SP - > whose features and lens quality were ahead of Leica's at the time... > > Why stay with Leica? And I ask this as a serious photo/philosophical > question. >