Re: [Leica] Thoughts on R8s

["Barney Quinn, Jr." <barney@ncep.noaa.gov>]

Felix,

You have used an R8, and found out that you weren't yet ready to buy
one. That's fine. I don't think that bothers anyone on the list. What
does sometimes annoy me is this. I don't at the moment subscribe to any
Nikon lists, Canon lists, or rec.photo groups, but I certainly have in
the past. I invite you to do an experiment. Get on these other lists.
Make some posts which extol the value of an R8 or an M6 while
criticizing an F5 or EOS 1v and just see what happens to you. Then come
back and raise these free speech issues again.

By the standards of other lists the LUG is highly tolerant. Sometimes to
a fault. Here, watch this....I'm a Leica guy. I shoot with an M6 and an
R8. But, I just want to say that I think that the F3, for the price, is
a hell of a deal.

Barney

Félix López de Maturana wrote:
> 
> "I should be obvious that this is a list which consists of people who HAVE
> checked out most and many of the Nikons and have gone with Leica instead.
> Had
> YOU ever shot with a Leica R8? It does not sound like you have bothered.
> Perhaps
> you should give it a shot?! It is a stupendous camera! If you're so happy
> about
> your Nikons perhaps you should tell the Nikon list all about it I'm sure
> they'd
> be interested. Here i just comes across as some kind of a weird naïve troll.
> 
> Mark Rabiner"
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Someone asked opinions about R8 cameras. Someone replied that he preferred
> his Nikon stuff. The second one could'n reply to the first one in the Nikon
> list trying to help him with his opinion. May we express here our opinion
> that something is better than Leica, if we think so, or it is forbidden by
> some law I ignore? I have shooted with a R8 and I did not liked it. Just my
> opinion. But I see that many people do. Stupendous. And some members of the
> list have checked out Leica SLR and have gone with Nikon instead. Why not?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Félix