[Leica] Re: Zeiss Ikon

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

On 10/2/04 5:54 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jls@runbox.com> typed:

> I wasn't speaking of the MP or M7, but the Leicas that you design
> yourself looks-wise. Wasn't that just about the only offering they had
> at Photokina?
> 
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Emanuel
> Lowi
> Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 7:30 PM
> To: lug@leica-users.org
> Subject: [Leica] Re: Zeiss Ikon
> 
> Jeffery Smith wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Maybe it will get them....moving (on something other
>> than designer
>> cameras.)
>> 
> 
> There's no way anybody can call the M7 or the MP
> designer cameras. They are in my opinion the best
> Leicas ever made and therefore among the finest
> photo-making tools ever.
> 
> How many of you have used either long enough to
> discover that truth?
> 
> What is astonishing to me is how such numbers of
> previously professed Leica users are rushing like
> fools towards the alleged pleasures of digital
> masturbation, like a bunch of 12-year-old schooboys.
> 
> And wasn't it here that we've read for years about how
> nobody likes red dots, wants black paint or vulcanite
> or fewer framelines or less plastic or the old classy
> engraving? So here you got it with "a la carte," as
> the icing on the cakes of two wonderful M cameras, and
> now there's nothing but sneering here about "designer
> cameras" ?
> 
> So keep pushing and pulling on the sticky knobs and
> buttons attached to those battery-swallowing LCD
> screens. Just don't go crying when Leica withers for
> no good reason other than the need of so many to wank
> around with the latest mod con.
> 
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal
> 
>I'd like to pretend I wrote the above....



The 12 year old digital masturbation thing I didn't see nor do I agree with.

And I think the influx of rangefinder lens and body options including
digital bodies are in the end going to keep Leica alive. Not kill it.
I guess I'm a capitalist as I think competition almost always ends up being
a positive thing.


Mark Rabiner
Photography
Portland Oregon
http://rabinergroup.com/