Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Not again please, Mark! > As a German your "worship" of everything manufactured in Germany is really > embarrasing to me. Actually my clear main point is a designer with three grand to work with in his lens design parameters verses a designer with a one grand to work with. It is lens design and it is money. He's got a whole lot more he can do with a lens. I'd recommend reading Erwin's lens book to people. Where that designer hangs is hat or looks like is of course no interest to me. A lens with such a premium budget has had less interest to the Japanese camera industry than the German. I have not clue more much interest in if there may be a reason. I'm talking about money. Not national origin. I've been using tens of thousands of dollars of Japanese camera gear since the start of my career. But people who would rather spend one grand on a lens and call it the same as a three grand lens would rather just brand the people with the other argument a racist. There are such a thing as products which are very capable standard of the industry level products. And there are products which are premium products whose specs are more pie in the sky. Stuff you don't get with one pay check. Stuff you need to save up a bit for. Leica does not make the former. They make the later. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner