[Leica] leica vs olympus vs Linhof

[Ben <ben@teco.net>]

"Once, in a country, far, far away, there was a man who took
pictures. He had a good Olympus OM1 camera with a standard lens,
but he was not satisfied. He looked at pictures taken by other
photographers, and saw they were better. Much, much better. 

So he got himself a Canon EOS 1n with five Canon lenses, and continued
taking pictures. But he still was not satisfied with the quality of his
pictures, 

So he bought a Nikon F5 with ten Nikkors. He looked at his pictures, and
said: 'Oh! What a shit!'. 

This time, the man took no risk, so he sold his car and bought himself a
Leica M6 AND a Leica R8, AND all Leitz lenses available. And still they
stank. 

That's it! Said the man. I'm going for it! And he sold his house and got
himself a Hasselblad with all Carl Zeiss lenses available. He could
barely walk around anymore, but still the smell coming off his pictures
could not be ignored. 

So he threw the Hasselblad stuff away, and bought a Linhof large format
camera with a tripod of 300 kilo. The man could not leave his house
anymore, so he sat all day at home, shitting, and thinking - Why on
earth did I sell my light-weight Olympus???"

He lived, unhappily, forever after...