Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:17:37 -0500

No your saying Leicas are sold in jewelry stores. Its a snarky put down. One
does not have to be a Leica "fanboy" to pick that up.
I think you should consider that this list has lots of people who find Leica
use very realistic and not elitist. It having a long history of big names
and happy dads and moms shooting with them. It long being considered a
serious not snotty camera. This is reality not fan boy stuff. If you're not
into it maybe join a list which involves gear you ARE into.

Mark William Rabiner
Photography
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/


> From: Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:23:41 -0600
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I wouldn't consider what I have said to be "Intensely" negative, except to
> mindless fanboys. It is only my experience. Even in the sixties and
> seventies, I found stores that sold Leicas to be stuffy places that only
> sold their fine wares to the rich. I can remember being shooed away from 
> the
> Leica counter to a Pentax by a salesman that considered me unworthy. In 
> have
> an M9 (the second Leica I have owned), and shoot it with pleasure. And to 
> be
> honest, in the last few days, this list has been getting a little too 
> fanboy
> for my taste. I may take a month off.
> 
> Bill Pearce
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon.streeter
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 2:56 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
> 
> The Leica store in Pasadena did look like a jewelry store, now that I think
> about.
> 
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone
> 
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
> Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 11:58 pm
> 
> 
> My Leicas I got from camera world in Portland or B&H in NY or one lens from
> Glazers in Seattle. All look like camera stores and not the slightest bit
> like jewelry stores. Where does stuff like this come from I wonder?
> If ones approach to Leica is so intensely negative why involve yourself 
> with
> it or be on a Leica list?
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> 
> 
>> From: Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:24:35 -0600
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use
>> 
>> AS someone who has been a professional since the early seventies, I can
>> tell
>> 
> you that film Leicas were always the very most expensive, and always sold 
> in
>> 
> stores that resembled jewelry stores. This business isn't news. There may
>> 
> have been a time when Leicas were affordable to pros, but that time was the
>> 
> forties and fifties.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: jon.streeter
> 
> 
> 
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