Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUGers Please allow me to take the time to completely agree with BD, though I have been using Leicas "only" since 1946. Jerry bdcolen wrote: > Good for you, Gary, I'm glad you're content. And if you ran the list, I > guess I might consider your advice and unsubscribe. But since you > don't... > > I've been shooting since the early 60's - not that I know what you're > comment about how long you've been shooting had to do with anything ;-) > - I have shot with M2s, M3s, M4ps and M4-2s, and now M6s and M6TTls- I > too used a Contax G1 for a while and though it has terrific glass, > didn't like the fact that it is basically a P&S with interchangeable > lenses. I now depend upon my M6s and M6TTLs to earn part of my living. > They are my TOOLS. I have NO emotional investment in them or in Leica as > a company. I think the glass is terrific, and I like using rangefinders. > However - I find that the flare problem occasionally costs me images. > And that is GD inexcusable in a $2000-just-for-the-body camera. It is > particularly inexcusable to have Leica turn around and finally, after > what, 20 years, find a fix for the problem that they created - as the > problem doesn't exist in the M2s and M3s, and charge as much to fix it > as one might pay for a user M2 or M3 - or for that matter an M4-2 or > M4p. > > Does that make me a "malcontent?" No, it makes me a pissed off consumer. > > B. D. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Gary > Williams > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 1:27 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Some Perspective...was .Re: [Leica] M6 viewfinder upgrade > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <DennisKT5D@aol.com> > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Leica] M6 viewfinder upgrade > > > B. D. is absolutely right. Ignore an obvious problem, limit the > > fixable cameras, and CHARGE you for the fix to boot. One more reason > > (among > several) > > not to buy Leica. > > B.D., Dennis and other malcontents > > If you guys don't like Leica you can unsubscribe from the list and save > the rest of us from your whining. I for one do not seek perfection or > nirvana or whatever it is that you don't seem to be able to get from > owning and using the gear and belonging to the list. Intelligent > dialogue and disagreement are one thing, but my index finger gets stiff > sometimes from deleting your negative and insipid emails. > > I have been shooting since the late 1970's, mostly Contax SLR, and after > a brief and frustrating flirtation last year with a Contax G2 (now > that's a piece of tricked up electronic nonsense to complain about, you > call that thing a rangefinder, what a waste of wonderful Zeiss glass) I > am delighted with my M7, M2 and handful of Leica lenses, 21mm CV, 24mm > ASPH, 35mm ASPH, > 90mm Elmarit. I have the highly portable, unobtrusive, intelligent, > low > light shooting friendly system I have been looking for since I started > in this game back in the 1970's. Yea, Leica costs an arm and a leg, > which created a real obstacle to ownership for me until I reached my > 40's. On the cost of ownership perhaps we all have a complaint. But if > you spent a little more time examining your motives and your desires, > and a little less time complaining maybe you could figure out where it > is that you really want to be with this stuff. For most of us on the > list it's a hobby or passion to pursue and to enjoy and not a vocation > to constantly fret about. > > Gary > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html