Re: [Leica] Old fashioned?

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Simon-
Walk with pride! If you can take photographs and and good ones, while all
about you are using 'new fangled' automated cameras- then you can proudly
state that YOU  take the photographs, and that you would rather do that than
let the CAMERA decide what is right!
Yeah! I never trusted those one eyed varmits anyway!
Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Stevens" <simon@camera-craftsman.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: [Leica] Old fashioned?


> An amusing incident happend last night. I was photographing a corporate
> party and a lady stopped me and commented on my camera choice. She said
> it was a "very old fashioned camera." I didn't know quite how to respond
> because first, she was actually pointing to my very new fangled Quantum
> T2 flash, and secondly because I don't really think of an M6 TTL with a
> 35mm f2 asph as being exactly low tech. Of course, I can see how it
> gives that impression.
>
> Maybe I'm just sensitive about the issue. I have had other professionals
> sniff that Leicas lack the "necessary" automation of their F100's (these
> are folks who like me mostly photograph challenging subjects like grip
> and grins). But this is the first time I have had a cleint disparage my
> camera. On the rare occasion anybody says anything at all, it's up to
> now only been admiring.
>
> Anyway, my question is this: What do LUGGERS think of as "old fashioned"
> in a camera? Does simplicity denote old fashinedness? Styling? Quality
> of construction? How do you evaluate lenses? If they are highly
> perfected aspherical fixed focal lenght lenses, is that old fashioned
> because they aren't zooms?
>
> Simon Stevens
>
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