Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/3/99 1:21:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time, m6rf@yahoo.com writes: << The point is that you do not need a $2,500 lens if you are shooting prints and having them processed at the supermarket or drug store. Your money would be much better spent by purchasing a second body and a second cheap lens and you would still have enough left over to take the wife out to dinner. (At which time you can explain to her about all the money you saved by purchasing the second body and lens). To put it another way, you don't need a 4,000 pound Mercedes SUV if you live in Florida and all you do is drive two miles to the grocery store...a Toyata will get you there and back just fine...and for much less money. >> IMO if you are handholding 400 speed color neg film and having it processed at the supermarket you might consider even the new "cheap" LTM lenses overkill. Buy any glass-lensed P&S and take your wife on a weekend getaway. As to people basing their purchases on objective assessments of their needs, next time you're in Florida try counting the number of Mercedes SUV's, not to mention Escalantes, Navigators, Expeditions, Excursions, LX400's, Land Cruisers, HumVees and 9000-lb Excursions, all of which their owners of course bought with those crippling winter blizzards in mind, right?