Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In-Reply-To: <1188@fireship.demon.co.uk> > OK, but as someone with a foot in both camps (leica's and tube amps), > could I just point out that the people in rec.photo.latest.whizz-bang > are all laughing at us using the awful old mechanical stuff. Yes, but I'm laughing back at them, eye-controlled focus? WTF? And have you *seen* what they regard as an 'old' camera that they want to upgrade? They're usually several years younger than my newest one (and they're often broken in some way). Still, I love automatics which don't work, hopeless TTL matrix metering which can't touch an incident or proper spot meter with a bargepole, 28-300 zoom lenses with hopeless definition/distortion and tiny maximum apertures, titchy little on-camera flash-guns and small APS negs. It means that the poor fools will never match my images, which means I can keep selling them! > Tha argument runs true, if you can't believe its better, go and check > it out, you just might be wrong. > > Leica's can let you take the best pictures, valves let you hear the > best music. I like *some* valve hi-fi amps, and am about to buy another Audio Innovations one, but some are expensive nonsense. > p.s. guitar amps that distort were made on purpose like 90 mm Thambar > lenses. :-) Leo Fender knew *exactly* what he was doing. dmorton@cix.compulink.co.uk | "The loss of an old man david@cassandra.compulink.co.uk | is like the destruction Kilburn, London, England. | of a library"