Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R musing
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 15:38:52 -0500

vicmalta@earthlink.net jotted down the following:

> I noticed in a recent thread that the R-8 was more or less refered
> to as "esoteric" equipment. Now sonny, as far as I'm concerned, the
> EOS1v is esoteric, with all those buttons, symbols , custom options
> and the like.

Esoteric means "available to a small group only".  Typically, this refers to
knowledge, but it can refer to other means too.  I was the "sonny" who wrote
the passage you were referring to and I didn't mean esoteric in the
knowledge sense, but rather in the sense of cost.  I'd agree, the EOS 1v
certainly is esoteric, in both senses, but I feel quite justified in calling
any camera body with a typical retail price of over $1,500 esoteric and the
Leica -- with its associated lens cost -- doubly so.

M.

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