Re: [Leica] It's the Glass/Camera!!!

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

Martin Howard wrote:
> 
> Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote, in part:
> >  Face it,
> > the reason we use the M is not the camera, its the lenses which have
> > transcended time with their wonderful resolution capabilities.
> >
> 
> Nope, sorry Peter, but you're naïve inductivist method of investigation
> doesn't work.  I use Leica M cameras for the camera as much as I do for the
> lenses.  It's small, quiet, jewel-like, fast, direct, engaging, dependable.
> It connects me to the photographic process and the things I shoot, rather
> than distanceing me from them.  I value that.
> 
> However, that doesn't mean that it might not be interesting to *complement*
> the existing line of M cameras, much in the way Cosina has *complemented*
> the existing line of M lenses.  I agree that an M built by Fuji would be an
> interesting proposition.
> 
> M.
> 
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Hi Martin!
I recall the list getting on this tract before way back a year.
It seems about a third of us like yourself tolerate the camera to get the glass.
Anther third don't care much about the glass; just like the camera.
The third are supremely enlightened and think the glass on the camera is a happy
coincodense of the best of everything all at once.
I'm guilty of being in that category of course I'm always ringing little Leica
bells at Airports coming up to people....
Rangefinders are us/me. The new ASPH.'s rule!!!!
Mark (The True Believer) Rabiner