Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is just a letter to the editor...In fact, AP has frequently defended the superiority of Leica M. If it upsets you, I suggest writing a letter of your own and sending it to AP. As for the Minilux placing well behind the GR1 in a review of compacts, I am not the least surprised. When I did my own comparison recently, I concluded that the only thing the Minilux had over the Ricoh was the red dot. All the things that actually matter were better on the GR1. Nathan sam alexander wrote: > The current issue (11/14) of Amateur Photographer (UK) has a flame-producing > letter from an irate mr. Paul Greenwood of Middelwich. In light of some > recent LUG threads on the subject, I thought some might find it amusing. > His letter, apparently in response to a prior article on Leica cameras, says: > . . ."I wish these Leica owners would take pics to prove their point > instead of bragging about the technical brilliance of the product. What you > lot should really do is go out in your S-class Mercedes and take some shots > through the window. Then the rest can see what you're made of. If you > can't, go home, polish your multifaceted, mechanical masterpiece, lay it > gently in its velvet-lined, mahogany presentation casket, and shut up!" > (it gets better): > "You're wasting valuable magazine space when it could be used by people who > are serious about their photographs rather than some old-fashioned and > expensive ornament. That these things are auctioned at Christie's is due > solely to the signature of that menace Cartier-Bresson who thought it was > clever to take pictures of strangers quietly picking their noses, as long > as they weren't looking. > (and the best): The Leica is the Frank Sinatra of cameras - brilliant in > its day, but now pushing up the dasies. David Baily could produce inifitely > better results with an old Zorki 4 than I ever could with a Leica. Good > photographs are in the eye, not the machine." > > Also In this issue, the Leica Minilux zoom is tested against 4 other compacts. > It placed third behind the Contax TVS and was blown away by the winner, a > Ricoh GR1. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html