Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/22

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Subject: [Leica] Re. Are we no longer wanted?
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:54:08 +0530
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Peter,
LOL!
Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> 
wrote:

> I just came into this thread (I've been writing all weekend).  What's
> interesting is that most people really agree about the essentials (Leica
> products good, Leica business not so good).  Yet we argue and get upset
> with each other. Too bad.
>
> It's also too bad that because Leica is expensive, it seems to promote
> class warfare.  Again, too bad.  For the record, I'm not rich, and I have
> an M8. I don't have other things because I bought the M8.  No regrets--the
> camera matches me and what I do photographically.
>
> That said, when Tina advised Jayanand to get an M8, I had a sudden vision
> of Our Man from India walking up to one of those magnificent tigers with
> an M8 and 35 Summicron, saying: "Excuse me, Honored Mr. Tiger, but I'd
> like to take a nice close-up of your magnificent face with my superb
> optics and anti-alias-free sensor.
>
> I'd like to go on record advising against this.  :-)
>
> --Peter
>
> Jayanand wrote:
>  Mark,
> > In my last post, I was talking largely about Leica, the company, and not
> > Leica, the product - why does everyone think that those terms are
> synonymous
> > when they are not? ... (etc.)
>
>
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