Re: [Leica] Thanks!! OT Nikon F5

["AWSteg" <upstream1@mindspring.com>]

There is a place in this world for each of these tools.  To argue about it
is absurd!  Would you argue about only using a hand saw made with German
steel Vs a Dewalt power saw with an American Blade saying that "you are
power saw."   Please!  The M6 is a great camera and the glass is great.  The
Contax G2 is a great camera with great glass and autofocus and motor drive
and bracking. . .but, there are batteries involved and that can present a
problem sometimes.  The F5 or F100 are great cameras and I think the glass
is not quite as sharp, but faced with a photographic problem or job that was
better solved with an F5, I would choose the F5.  Under the right set of
circumstances the F5 would produce a better product.  If the M6 was the
correct tool, then the M6 would be the tool of choice, same with the G2. .
.or for that matter a digital camera.  This Arian glass mindset gets tedious
and unrealistic in my book.

Al Stegmeyer
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Scarpitti" <mikescarpitti@yahoo.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Thanks!! OT Nikon F5


> --- Simon Lamb <s_lamb@compuserve.com> wrote:
> > Jeremy
> >
> > You must be a much better photographer than those
> > thousands of pros who
> > use the F5 (and EOS 1 for that matter), to be able
> > to label it a piece
> > of junk without using it.  How I envy to the ability
> > to assess the
>
> Thousands of pros don't know **** from shinola.
> Stupidity multiplied thousands of times is still
> stupidity. The average pro is a nit-wit with poor self
> esteem who "has to" use whatever the latest guru uses
> (Velvomita, F5's, etc.) just to assuage his feelings
> of gross inadequacy and inferiority.
>
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