Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: other leica lenses... >Usually, but not exclusively. I use Leicas for the bodies, not the lenses. > If I lost my M6s, and could only replace them with some totally redesigned >modern M7, chances are that I would trade in my lenses. Alternatively, I >wouldn't dream of trying to fit a Leica lens onto any of my other Japanese >cameras, even if it were possible. The alternative optics are simply not >that significantly inferior to make that big a fuss over, IMHO. > >And a photograph is just a photograph. There is not such thing as "Leica" >photographs, or "nikon" photographs, etc. There has to be more to the >content of a photograph then microscopic clues as to which optical system >produced it. Otherwise, what is the point to photography? > >Again, IMHO. This has got to be one of the most intelligent messages ever to appear on this list. Again, IMHO. jh