Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric: Not a lot of pros use Leica gear because they cannot afford it initially. There are good pros that use it and they can afford it because they are good at their job and are paid accordingly. Another problem is people think of newspaper photographers as the majority of the pros. They just shoot what they are given or what the paper has a good loaner pool of lenses. Just locally I have shown my Leicas to two Pros who are very interested in the quality of the Leica images. One is getting ready to dump his EOS gear and go to Leica. He wants an R8 and two M series cameras. The other had Leica and switched to Nikon in the 1980's because Leica did not offer something in their system that he needed. He now is very interested in seeing my 105-280, as he has heard good reports about it. In these cases, the firs pro is an photographer for a magazine and the second one is an artist that specializes in landscapes. Regards Robert At 09:25 PM 8/22/99 EDT, you wrote: >Okay, > >So I'm new here. But... after looking at the website for this list ><http://www.komvux.skola.mark.se/lug.htm> and reading the list owner's >message, this is a list for Leica _rangefinder_ cameras (emphasis mine). So >then, shall we all keep it to that? Nothing more about SLR's, auto-whatever, >film types, computers, photo printing, scotch, or anything else? Is that >what is required here? Fine. Maybe we should all take these toys and just >throw them in the dumpster anyway, since no pro that I personally know even >uses Leica gear! I'm just a "damn yuppie", who makes up for lack of talent >with expensive gear. > >By the way, if you consider this a rant. Please be at peace. This is >nothing. Not even the tip of the iceberg. I'm just a crabby semi-middle >aged person who is extremely p*ss*d at himself for blowing money on gear that >I do not need. > >Eric Platt > >