Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Re: LUG Digest, Vol 28, Issue 262
From: fmaturana at euskalnet.net (Félix López de Maturana)
Date: Tue Nov 9 15:55:36 2004
References: <200411092242.iA9MdGYo001855@server1.waverley.reid.org>

>
>Surely you jest.
>

Never about photography.

But let me show some Leica ones:

- Leica ? la carte for serious photographers: May be my choice would be pink 
painted body with bottom monkey skin
- Leica MP with a rewind crank that needs an adapter for rewinding that 
scratches seriously the top of the camera
- A standard lens (50 ASPH) which cost -worth?- is much bigger than some 
excellent complete cameras but comes defective (seen in the LUG)
- All kinds of signatures, glooms and so esoteric lenses qualities
- The lenses which one discover that is far better on the images after a 
45.000 magnification factor -that must be about 300 loupe knocks on 
Photoshop-
- Any Leica price,  but you know if you ask you cannot afford it.
- Any idea about any past time was better.
- Any idea about metal superiority over plastic. Formula I cars frames are 
on carbon fiber
- Any idea about my cameras need to survive me and/or last four or five 
generations -or that was my Pathek Philipe?
- Any idea about craftsmanship superiority. When in industrial world I very 
soon learnt that a good numeric machine had smaller tolerances than a had 
guided.

Cameras are tools never cult objects.
The important matter is the image not the tool which made it. I do not 
"love" my cameras I merely "use" them. No danger of  "adultery". Maybe, 
perhaps I'm polygamist

Enough "jokes" Dough?

Of course I was jesting

Warm regards

Felix 



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