[Leica] 2500 ISO

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Walt Johnson offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] 2500 ISO

>>> I absolutely couldn't agree with you more about these new M8's. If
> someone could show me a real advantage to $5000 cameras maybe.<<<<

Hi Walt,
Yeah it's expensive, but slip back a few years.... maybe late '50's early 
'60 and buying a Leica was considered.... "Holy Cow you paid what for that 
little thing?" attitude amongst the press guys I worked with.

But I had to have one, then another and another as my tools making my 
assignment ratio climb like crazy.  And I had lots of economic arguments 
about spending money for bodies and lenses, but!  I began to shoot better 
photographs, see differently and shot where others feared to shoot without 
blasting a twinkie light or two.

As often as I've had to swallow hard at the Leica price on many occasions, 
it's always been the "value of the tool" and not what it cost. It's what it 
allowed me to do that counted, period.

Yep 5 grand will buy you a lot of tri-x. But if you don't have the right 
tools at hand that allow you to shoot what motivates you, then the film is a 
throw away. No?

And like you I can't imagine wrecking an M8 as I too would cry all the way 
to the repair shop, bank, and pharmacist. Or maybe that should be... Bank, 
repair shop and padded cell! ;-)

ted