Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jan, I want to echo and reinforce what others on the list are saying. I'll never afford an S2 and I'll never afford a Strad. There are people who collect violins. Where they manage to get the money to do this is beyond me. There also people who collect cellos. Where they get the space to store them I don't know. Here are some of the things which determine the value of a stringed instrument. When it was made. Where it was made. Who made. Who has owned it, and who has played it. What it sounds like is dead last on the list, if it is on the list at all. Perhaps this is because to deal with the question of an instrument's sound someone has to play it and that is a whole different question than talking about how you bought it. It's easy to talk about hardware. Learning to use it is a whole different matter. Talking about equipment is just human nature. Equipment isn't totally irrelevant, but it's far less important than many people think. Carter Brey is the Principal Cellist of the New York Philaharmonic. He did his audition for the Peabody Conservatory on a cello which only cost six or seven hundred dollars. He got in. Some years ago I attended a master class with YoYo Ma. At one point during the class he wanted to make a point so he borrowed a cello from one of the students in the class. I happen to know the cello in question. It came from a local dealer and cost about twenty five hundred dollars. It was a cheap cello, although there is nothing cheap about a cheap cello. He sounded every but as good on this student cello as he did on his Strad. Point is this. At some point it isn't about what you've got it's about what you do with it. Barney On Sep 28, 2008, at 9:09 PM, Jan Decher wrote: > Hi Folks, > I am getting rather overwhelmed by the volume of this list and feel > a little bit out of place here. I will definitely not be able to > afford an M8 (or DMR, or S2 for that matter) for the forseeable > future and have a much more analog low-budget approach to shooting > and owing Leica gear than (it seems) most here. > Will can fully satisfy the digital needs (mosty for my work as a > zoologist) with a lowly Canon Rebel Xsi, D50 or G10, but love the > feel and timeless image quality of a IIIf, M3, M6 or SL2 and the > smell of my B&W darkroom (with B22XL enlarger). > Is there a Leica list for analog only, classic Leica users, where > the newest gear is not necessarily the best? > Thanks, Jan > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information