Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I want it made perfectly clear that I am not the one who made the comment "is it really worthwhile to use Leica cameras, as opposed to say a Canon Rebel? :-)." However; I have NEVER subscribed to the notion that using a Leica makes ANY photo better. IMHO the quality of a photo lies entirely on the content. A photo of outstanding content made with a disposable kodak camera is better than a boring empty content photo made with a Leica. Just my opinion of course. I know a fellow former UPI photographer who made a photo of then President George Bush as he was swimming in the Pacific Ocean with his wife's point and shoot Nikon. Joe used the best equipment at hand that would fit the bill and that was a Nikon P&S. That photo ran in almost every paper in the USA, in LIFE magazine and was on the cover of one of LIFE's books. Guess that old Nikon P&S did a pretty decent job, or maybe, just maybe, Joe is a damn good photographer who has the brains and eye to use what he needs to get the job done. I know Joe and I think it may just be the latter...... Also in my work as a photographer I use Canon gear as my SLR equipment and I have had FAR more photos published using the Canon lenses than I have had Leica...those same lenses fit on the lowly Rebel body and I am quite sure that they would deliver the same results they do on my EOS 1n, oh and last time I looked Leica does not make: a 24 1.4, any of the tilt/shift lenses, no fast wide zooms..... >Hi, > >David Hurn, member since 1967 of Magnum Photos, changed from Leica >to Canon. In 'On being a photographer' he writes "I use the cheapest >amateur model in the Canon range". I defy anybody to look at his >books and tell me they know which photographs were shot with a Leica >and which with a Canon. > >Cheers, > >Bob > >>From: Bill Satterfield <cwsat@cyberhighway.net> > >> >>If you have to ask, then you do not need a Leica. A good point and shoot >>should suffice. >> >>Harrison McClary wrote: >> >> > >is it really worthwhile to use Leica cameras, as >>> >opposed to say a Canon Rebel? :-). >> > > >> > >Dave - -- Harrison McClary http://www.mcclary.net