Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I´m professional photographer working mostly for newspapers and magazines in Germany and I use two Leica M6 with lenses from 21mm to 135mm. Normally I do reportage and then you can´t get any better system as the Leica M. I taped the red point and the M6 Sign so that it doesn´t raises attraction. With my little M6 and i.e. the 35mm I look like just another silly tourist taking pics like crazy. But when I have to join a official photocall, at least one of my colleagues comes to me and ask me, if I really use *THIS* camera for news photography. Especially younger photographer cannot imagine to work without autofocus and automatic exposure. I already got offers from agenciews to visit, just because they´ve seen me working with this *oldfashioned* camera. The older colleagues comes and say "oh, it´s just nice to see somebody doing the real photography". But anyhow: They are "the others". You have to deal with your system. It doesn´t help you, when somebody was successful with a Leica M, or when everybody tells you, that the lens is extremly good. You have to be happy with it and when the results makes you happy too, then Ok! But not everybody *wants*, or *can* deal with a system which provides you nothing more than accurate function and high optical quality. Cheers, Deniz At 12:19 PM 1/24/99 -0600, you wrote: >Don't know where in the hell you got that information....among >non-photographers, Leica is unknown (exc. oldsters)...among >photographers it is known as an EXTREMELY elitist product... >(the BEST or a useless status symbol depending on the person's >viewpoint)...but never "just another product"......you either >get praise or contempt for owning/using Leica from other >photographers, depending on the status of the bug up their ass >that day..... > >Walt >