Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?

["Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>]

But you cannot get rapid service, and that is a sine qua non for many types of
work.  You can't close down your business for a month while you wait for
equipment to be repaired.

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 16:15
Subject: Re: [Leica] lower classes don't use leicas?


> Have to disagree here...While Leica doesn't seem as interested as N & C
> in serious pro support, you have to consider that  - one, the Ms are
> certainly more reliable and longer lived than the current generation of
> M&C equipment; and, second, and most important, if it's the best tool
> for a given photographer, it's the best tool, no matter what the
> company's attitude may be.
>
> B. D.
>
>
> Jon Honeyball wrote:
> >
> > "Some purchase Leicas as photographic tools to earn the rent, some buy them
as playthings, others as a means to boost their self-esteem. There are many
different reasons."
> >
> > Given Leica's complete disinterest in supporting professional photographers,
that only leaves the toys'n'egos marketplaces.
> >
> > Jon