Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Ted. DUMKOPFEN ! > On Oct 18, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > > OK RAB BABY I'M WITH YOU ABOUT ALL THIS "THUMBAR crap"! > > Anyone who requires a "s0ft focus"? photograph is already into dumb-ass > nonsense! > What I can't understand is? Here is LEICA all these years extolling the > fantastic sharpness and crispness of the LEICA lenses and then they come > out with a piece of crap called the "THUMBAR LENS????" Yep maybe for the > odd "portrait photog?" HECK do I want a soft'misty look? I'll just give a > very slight smear of Vaseline! > What is happening in Germany is"The head guys know they're going into the > dump bucket because they are still living in the'30's?????????? WHEN THEY > WERE STILL DOING VERY WELL IN SELLING TO THE WORKING TRIBES OF NEWS AND > PHOTOJOURNALISTS! TODAY? THEY ARE GOING INTO THE CRAP BUCKET!!!!!:-( > WHY??????????? > UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO THE CAMERA MARKET AROUND THE WORLD PRODUCING "CAMERAS > FOR TODAY! AT A PRICE GENERAL PHOTOGRAPHERS OF TODAY CAN'T AFFORD! > Economically as of these past years? Camera's/LEICA's have been far more > for the "super rich" of the profession?" Or wealthy folks of the world! > We on the outside of the elites of the world? > The big time leica CAMERA/maker owners "DO NOT LISTEN TO US" Many of us > who've used Leica's almost since the early '50's OR EARLIER until today. > Me? Not one LEICA @ a time! > However, quite often 3 M's hanging around my neck on my chest! Yes up to > date models every time new versions came to market. Plus 2 slr's and > motors on my left shoulder and another on my right shoulder and all 6 > cameras with various lenses! > Of course not on every assignment, but most Olympics, winter and summer, > professional football & many years in the operating rooms of Canada,across > the USA, with a fair number in the USSR while creating my books about the > medical profession in the operating & recovery rooms of hospitals!! > Sorry for my rambling! But as I see LEICA AND THEIR DUMB ASS EXECUTIVES > destroying LEICA as the great camera machines we've all used many many > years? I've just become absolutely ticked off with their modern day > stupidity! > A "THUMBAR LENS?" They'd be better off making lenses for the IPHONE! Or > the complete I CAMERAS! Simply because photography is going to continue to > advance until the IPHONE becomes the camera of complete communication! > OH YOU DON'T BELEIVE ME?????? > OK just sit back and watch for the LEICA IPHONE?? > A somewhat distraught old LEICA photojournalist! > CHEERS, > Dr.Ted Grant O.C. > > > > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information