Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Barney, Well said. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Barney Quinn <bjq1@mac.com> wrote: > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >