Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 1/10/05 4:15 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jefferys@gmail.com> typed: > Easy now, Bill. I used the word hype because Zeiss was giving us the > information in tiny little snippits while showing us a tiny piece of a > photo that showed nothing more than a 1/2" square bit of the camera. > Don't you recall the maddening tiny bits of info that Zeiss was > releasing on its web site before Photokina? I don't know how Nikon > released the information, but I hope they were less infantile about it > than the Zeiss PR folks. > > Jeffery > > And in the context of the whole new Cosina Contax system which is being hyped across the board at a very insulting level with a dozen questionable affirmations in their brochure straight out of the marketing department. I'm sure their design depart cringed when they saw it. Also in the past two days I noticed this weird idea they are passing off of using your 80mm Planar you so love on your Rolleiflex TLR medium format camera on your 35mm rangefinder. Porting a medium format lens into a 35mm camera system is new to me and it sounds fishy. Especially in the context of all this overwhelming hype. The other thing just like this is they say they are in effect porting over the 40 we Rollei 35 users love on our compact collapsible innovative Rollei 35's and that their 40 for this new rangefinder system is the same formula. I believe this more than the 80. I am an avid user of both Rolleiflex TLR's http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/CameraworkRudy.html and Rollei 35's. http://rabinergroup.com/ImagePages/PortlandRollei35.html The idea of getting both those "Looks" of these classic Zeiss optics into my Leica shooting would be nice if there was any reality worth mentioning to it. With all the stuff they are slinging they could tell me the sky was BLUE and it would go in one ear and out the other. This system is being over sold. It's bad on its credibility. It's like a Hollywood movie where the budget is split 50 50 between the making and the selling. With cameras I'm more conformable with a budget which went into he development of the camera itself. Quality and value has a way of getting around quick enough. Why over hype it till it stinks? Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/