Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/04/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The m6 though Steve is a unusual kettle of fish when it comes to the perception of price and affordability. It always was thought of as off the deep end money wise but it always cost the same as a top of the line Canon or Nikon at least after a few decades when they became more automated. But people kept thinking an M was was an impossible dream. Why? Because they just were not going to spend $1850 on a camera with a cloth shutter and a sync speed of a 50th without one single micromoter in it. And that expense would also represent an additional 35mm system on top of their existing SLR. And they never did get the whole rangefinder thing. "why would you not want to look though the lens?" The Leica M system was simply beyond most people grasp of imagination not money. When they spend money the wanted "features". It was like spending money for a pimped out car but only getting a bare bones used BMW box. -------------------- Mark William Rabiner > From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:17:01 -0700 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica S2 > > > On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I spent it most my early life dreaming for an impossibly expensive camera. >> It was very frustrating. I was doing darkroom work at 13 and saw the very >> >> "I cant afford it!" >> I think we can afford what we choose to afford. Its just a matter of >> priorities. Readjust those priorities.... we can afford it. >> Do we really need food? So we really need shoes? >> NO what we really need is a Leica S2 camera. That's clear from the start. >> We can wear shoes and eat food when we're dead. Right now we're missing >> some >> shots! Oh I can get these shots with my present camera? > > only on the LUG, where we all already use "impossibly expensive cameras" > would we spend so much self indulgent time masaging information about > an even more wildly, impossibly expensive camera... > > we may have (some) limitations as to money, but not as to time, > > Steve > > > > > > >> >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> >>> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:56:42 -0500 (CDT) >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica S2 >>> >>> OnSun, 3 Apr 2011 <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >>> >>>> Relax, life is too short for bitching and whining! Get over it, get out >>>> shooting some nice photographs with whatever equipment you own! ! Now >>>> don't >>>> you feel better? ;-) >>> >>>> cheers, >>>> Dr. ted >>> ============================================================================ >>> == >>> =================================================== >>> This is my philosophy. I consider myself lucky to have almost all the >>> cameras >>> I dreamed of when I first got interested in photography. A IIIg is the >>> one >>> that got away. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information