Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] advice wanted for carry camera
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:02:52 -0700
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Tina, while I love my Lecia M, and it IS my "carry camera," and I do
appreciate your non-rabid-ness about your love of Leica, but I hate to break
it to you...

Even monkeys can fall off trees:

http://www.5pmlight.com/PICS/Wright/L9995226-2.jpg

Genuine Leica glass, proper lens selection, purple fringing to the wazoo.
Doesn't bother me much for I don't usually shoot branches like that, and
even if I do, I would probably convert them to B&W.

And weight has nothing to do with it. A GF-1 with a pancake is $800, much
less than any digital M solution.

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I don't understand either.  My Leica's are my carry cameras.  They go
> everywhere with me.  Surely the superior quality with Leica cameras and
> lenses is worth the substantial weight increase over tiny point and shoots.
>  I eventually regret every photo that I have made with a non-Leica camera.
>  When you examine the photos at 100%  or print them really large, Leica
> quality is always evident. That's the bottom line for me and I go to the Y
> and lift weights to be able to continue to carry my Leicas up and down
> mountains.  (And they are not that heavy, anyway!!)
>
> Tina
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
>
> > What's a " carry camera" anyway? A Leica M or LTM is a carry camera.
> > It the definition of one.
> >
> > For years on the LUG I've been watching people buy a Leica then go out
> > shopping for a camrea to have with them.
> > That's the raison d'?tre behind getting a Leica in the first place.
> >
> > [Rabs]
> > Mark William Rabiner
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



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