Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve LeHuray wrote: > > > What is it with all this enthusiasm for the Cosina stuff? > > > > The price of the body plus three accessory finders on Mr. Gandy's most > excellent > > list, $825 (without shipping), equals the cost of the user Leica M2 or M4-2 > that is > > waiting for you on the shelf of your local camera store or at one of the > > photo shows > > or even here on some blessed Friday. A far superior choice if one is > interested in > > taking pictures, not just playing around with gadgets. > > > > Why would anyone want to point an oddball item like the > son-of-rapidwinder-equipped > > Bessa with one big finder eye on top and blinking red lights at the back at > > some poor > > subject in this day and age? Are you trying to scare people away or take a > picture? > > > > I was amazed to see that even the inside front cover of the LHSA Viewfinder > > recently > > was basically an > > advertisement for this stuff. As for the claim that Kobayashi doesn't wish > > to compete > > with Leica, how does one explain the 28/1.9, 35/1.7. 50/1.5 etc.? Those surely > are > > designed precisely to attract attention away from Leica. > > > > For me, the only Cosina items of any real value are the 75 mm and maybe the > 35mm > > finders, which Leica does not make now. There may be some special occasions > for the > > 15mm and the 12mm. Very few, I'll wager. > > > > Emanuel Lowi > > Montreal > > > Emanuel, > > As far as the Cosina editorial presence in the LHSA's Viewfinder every issue > for the past couple of years all written by Tom A, (and at the same time > always being editorially critical of Leica) one has to wonder if Tom A is a > paid consultant for Cosina. And I am a little shocked that the powers at > LHSA go along with this. If I find out that Tom A is in fact a Cosina paid > consultant I will be dropping my LHSA membership. > > Steve > Annapolis This is a joke, right? Or are we about to see similar statements about EP? Naw, it has to be a joke! B. D.