Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> >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