Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I bought my Leica for the exact opposite reason you did. I Like the crazy rangefinder, it makes candid photography easier. My SLR system is Olympus OM, with three OM-4T bodies. The OM-4T sucks for candid work because it has a huge amount of lag between pushing the button and the shutter firing. I put up with it for the incredible metering system and the OM lenses, which are spectacular. My OM lenses are all very late models made in the last years of OM production (they're a lot better than many of the earlier Olympus lenses). I have shot both Olympus and Leica on the same projects and no one can tell the difference in the images between photos made with the OM 50mm f1.4 and the 50mm Tabbed Summicron that I have. -- Chris Crawford Fine Art Photography Fort Wayne, Indiana 260-424-0897 http://www.chriscrawfordphoto.com My portfolio http://blog.chriscrawfordphoto.com My latest work! On 2/27/10 4:59 AM, "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: >> That they look at name only regardless of actual quality. (has more money >> than brains, lol) Doing so won't hurt your image quality, Leica lenses are >> all top-level, but it will cost you a lot more if there is a cheaper >> alternative that is just as good or nearly so. If you can afford it, >> you're >> safe buying only Leica. If not, you have choices of the CV stuff or the >> Zeiss stuff. Some of it is very good. >> >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-424-0897 > > > Chris it doesn't look to me like you are looking very hard at what makes a > lens be a lens at one price point, and what makes a lens be at another. > The least of it is would seem to me to be lens design. > Its choice of materials. Glass types. > Amount made and by which method made. > Tolerances and care in which they are made which means: > quality control (QC?) > And a one thousand dollar lens is many price points apart from a 3 > thousand. > You think its going to be minor differences I'd call that very wishful > thinking. A huge blurring of basic logic and common sense > The "You get what you pay for" rule actually does also apply to lenes which > go on cameras. If there is an exception to that rule I'm afraid camera > lenes > do not happen to be it. > > When I shot nikon in the 80's and 90's and I got a job and If needed > something wide I blew a few hundred bucks on a lens and the job would pay > for it. > When I went Leica I shot with a 50 for a year and saved a whole year till I > could afford a 90. Basically it took me a year to get any lens for my > Leica > M system. Ten years got me ten lenes. > Worth it. Worth the wait. > But now on the lug we get our bodies and we want to buy and sell lenes on a > whim like we did with cheaper systems. > And we do becaue we can. Third party glass made to an entirely different > price point. I say have fun with it. But don't fool yourself into thinking > its the same as a Leica or even close. > > A camera is a life support system for its lens line. > Leicas are used by people who would be rather be using SLR's and DSLR s. > But use Leica becaue it is simply by far the best 35mm glass made. > Despite the crazy rangefinder. > Spend big money on a camrea body and put cheap glass in front of it I'd > call > that foolish. > Put your money in glass. If you have any left over. Get a camera. > It'll keep your film dark. Its that simple. > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information