Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] digitalrebel -- Matchless Quality
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:30:31 -0700

If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of one picture clapping;-)
Slobodan Dimitrov

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>From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
>To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] digitalrebel -- Matchless Quality
>Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2003, 11:47 AM
>

> When did this become the Zen Bullshit List? :-)
>
> "Perhaps two mountain peaks rise through the clouds: Tradition and
> Content.
> Leica gives us Tradition.
> Our talent gives us Content."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of
> Afterswift@aol.com
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 12:33 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] digitalrebel -- Matchless Quality
>
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>
> In a message dated 8/22/03 7:53:25 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes:
>
> << If one can comfortably use a Leica lens
> manufactured in, say, 1955, a Leica lens which may not have even then
> been up to the standards being set by Zeiss and Nikon, and a lens which
> is now a Coke-bottle-bottom when compared to the latest Leica lenses,
> why can't one buy a 5 mgp digital camera and be happy with it for the
> next five to 10 years? >>
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> Perhaps two mountain peaks rise through the clouds: Tradition and
> Content.
> Leica gives us Tradition.
> Our talent gives us Content. Those are constants. Lens quality may
> improve,
> but always within the Tradition of quality. At this point in time,
> digital has
> not earned a tradition. It may never. A Leica label on a camera doesn't
> bestow
> Tradition. The fact of quality does. What we accept as defining quality
> is a
> personal opinion, until it jells as it did for the Ms as a consensus. As
> to
> meaningful Content, that's up to us individually. Combine Tradition with
> Content
> and you have matchless quality.
>
> br
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