Re: [Leica] Expensive Leicas and collectors

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

I use Linhof too.  Simple reason, you
wanna TK, you gotta buy a Linhof.

Same applies to Leica.  You want a
35f1.4?  a small 75f.4?  a 50f1.0 smaller
than a house?  small quiet cameras that
make pictures to die for?  then you gotta
buy a Leica.

(You want warp speed autofocus?
 You get something of a choice, which is
  part of why Canon/Nikon stuff isn't quite
  so pricey.)

Why the SLRs continue to sell is not so
clear to me, in the current autofocus age.
But I've never used an R lens, maybe they
they are like the M lenses.  (But there's
no 50f1 R or 75f1.4 R, are there? too many
r's...)

bmw


- -----Original Message-----
From: <Bob_Maxey@mtn.3com.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Wednesday, November 04, 1998 4:32 PM
Subject: [Leica] Expensive Leicas and collectors


>>>I really don't think this is why Leicas are so expensive.  Although as a
>user
>and not a collector, I could get behind anything (legal of course) that
>might
>bring the prices down.  No offense to LUG collectors! : )
>
>
>I think part of the problem is that Leica people will pay the price.
>Collectors certainly have a thing or two to do with it. I buy it because it
>is the best. Now, please explain why Linhof is so expensive, or
>Hasselblad.... People pay it? I know a lot of people who shoot, but I am
>the only one who uses a Linhoff. Perhaps I will sell and buy a new house.
>
>RM
>
>
>