[Leica] a quick hello

[mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)]

Just out of curiosity, if you believe Nikon is the way to go, why are  
you in the LUG?

On May 22, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Yes the Leica Users group is a gentleman's club.
> We're all a bunch of rich guys;
> Who buy and sell cameras.
> Or exchange, rather whole systems for others with pat excuses.
>
> Actually some of us have all kinds of cameras and we used them to make
> pictures in a serious and sometimes professional manner.
> Its not all about the gear.
> Its all about the USE of the gear.
>
> 99.99999 % of the serious pictures of people on the sidewalk are  
> made with
> DSLR's. For some reason they are not causing mass panic as you say  
> when you
> try it.
>
> And to split a fine point I do much of my shooting with my Nikons  
> over the
> past  33 years with two 80's.
> The first one an f2 AI which looks as obtrusive as a 50mm and has  
> the same
> filter size. 52.
> The second one (I still have the first one and use it) is the 1.8  
> AF which
> is a notch up in size to a filter size of 62mm.
>
> No law says I have to put a monster 1.4 80 on my bodies with its  
> 72mm filter
> size. I'd not own one. Is it a quarter stop between 1.8 and 1.4?!
> The 1.8 is half the weight and half the size.
>
> Though at the distances its often used it hardly makes a difference.
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 13:13:50 +0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] a quick hello
>>
>> Oh, technically it's a worse camera in every way. But there are
>> places that I just can't take the D3 without eliciting an unnatural
>> reaction. It's the content, not the picture quality. And it's the
>> change in vision, too. Besides, lugging that thing and a bag of
>> lenses around was doing my back in.
>>
>> I have to say, I never thought of Leica users as being envious of the
>> rest of the crowd...
>>
>> For what it's worth:
>
>
>
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