Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] JB, filters, flames, and technique
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 11:19:37 -0600

>   My Leica's allow me to "push the limits" a little further.

This is exactly what I am saying. I have no intention of dissing the other
cameras. (By the way, a friend in Thailand just got a note from is Nikon
rep. friend that there's a new body to be introduced on Nov. 25 that is
between the N90 and the F5 - now we return  you to this regularly scheduled
Leica message). They are great.

But what I find with Leica, that I don't with other cameras (the M6
especially, with the 35 Summilux ASPH and 75 Summilux, but the R stuff as
well) is the results of shooting in really bad light wide open. And then
blow the picture up real big. Not every day average use.

As for using Nikons, Canons Minoltas, Pentaxes (which are great by the way
I'll agree) I can't understand people who own a whole brace of different
brands, who then think us R users strange. I would have a heck of a time
jumping between different camera lines all the time. I like simplicity of
use, and Leica R and M together are the best going combination for me.
- -- 

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

.'Sounds like art,' the instructor says. 'Well, it is art,' I say.
'This divorce of art from technology is completely unnatural. It's just
that it's gone on so long you have to be an archeologist to find out where
the two separated...' "

Robert M. Pi