Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/11

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Monochrome
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 07:40:17 -0700
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On May 11, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Wayne Serrano wrote:

> Hey Steve,
> 
> Hope all is well with you.  So instead of a 'Leica R solution' they 
> present a new b&w M camera, filling a niche that no one knew existed...

now that we realize that this niche exists, at what ever cost,  we 
desperately need one.....dontcha think?

> I'm not opposed to shooting with two M9 bodies but I would much rather 
> shoot with wides on an M body and tele's on an R body.  I think Leica 
> should just help me to help them!
> 
> I'm just saying.


we don't disagree,


Steve



>   
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>> Sent: May 10, 2012 9:03 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Monochrome
>> 
>> 
>> On May 10, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Wayne Serrano wrote:
>> 
>>> So much for all the Leica R lens owners who would have rather liked to 
>>> see a Leica full frame DSLR to make use of existing R lenses...
>> 
>> c'mon Wayne, be a good sport. Instead of follow through on the Leica R 
>> system, we have an M that shoot's bw....
>> 
>> so what wrong with that?
>> 
>> Steve
>> 
>>> Wayne
>>> _________________________
>>> Wayne Serrano
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>>> wayne at wayneserrano.com
>>> http://www.wayneserrano.com
>>> 
>>> Sent from my mobile while out and about on location?
>>> Any weird words are this iPhone, not me.
>>> 
>>> On May 10, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Phil Forrest <photo.forrest at 
>>> earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 10 May 2012 15:28:26 -0400
>>>> Chris Crawford <chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This thing is so far outside the realm of even remote possibility for
>>>>> me that I frankly don't give a damn. What is Leica going to do when
>>>>> all the old people who have money because they began working before
>>>>> the $7 an hour economy was foisted upon their children have died,
>>>>> leaving the impoverished young who simply cannot even consider such
>>>>> equipment, no matter how good it is.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I've been asking this question for years and no one will give me an
>>>> answer that works, instead insisting that Leica will continue to exist.
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah? So will Kodak...
>>>> 
>>>> Phil Forrest
>>>> 
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