[Leica] The Wrath of Uncle Ted

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Richard Man OFFERED:
Subject: [Leica] The Wrath of Uncle Ted


> Alright you lads and ladies, get you collective arses out and shoot
> pictures! What's this non-sense about M Monochrom? (ha ha, I get it, May
> 10, or M10, not ten, but one zero, or B&W) <<<<<<<

Hi Richard,
"CLOSE!" ;-) However as interesting as this Monochrom M maybe and without 
question extremely expensive. If I were still shooting as much as I did 
while shooting my medical books and other publications, I'd surely have one.

Not that I think the "CONTENT WOULD BE ANY BETTER?" But the prints may look 
smashing without much, if any techie fiddling. We all relate to the cost 
factor, certainly those of us just plain old fashion everyday economic 
levels of life folks.

Now any CEO's out there knocking off a couple million a year before bonuses 
wouldn't blink at the cost factor. Good on them! As I'll never be one of 
them. ERGO? I calmly shrug my shoulders about the cost of Leica gear these 
days and simply carry on with a used demo M8, a couple of Leica lenses and a 
couple of CV lenses shooting colour when I need colour and quietly convert 
to B&W when necessary.

It seems all the "Road Rage" about the costs of this new gear is truly for 
naught! Merely creating a vast amount of high blood pressure levels for many 
who surely don't need it!! And wordings of anger and hyperbole of wasted 
breathing and typing! And here we go again bitching about something none of 
us has any control over!!

ERGO: Not likely any of you have shares and vast sums of money in the Leica 
home office? Simply read and delete, breath comfortably and get yer buns out 
side with whatever gear you are enjoying at the moment and take some nice 
Friday afternoon flowers and scenic's! :-) Or whatever grabs your observing 
eyes!

Me? I'm going to have some fun happy snapping a bunch of graduating medical 
students whom I've enjoyed capturing their lives as they learned how to look 
after us when we need one of them to maybe save my life! And not a serious 
moment in the whole afternoon as it's fun-time with my demo - used M8 and 
everything set on as automatic as it can be! Then all I have to do is focus 
rapidly and accurately. :-) Camera decides all else! : You've just got to 
love it when you trust what you use and do nothing but concentrate on the 
content that matters most! :-)

See how easy it can be when you really don't give a flying hoop about LEICA 
and their ridiculous prices????? :-)

Now that feel's much better than some screaming rant that actually 
accomplishes nothing but possibly giving one a deathly heart attack! And I 
may or may not have a few nice happy snaps before the afternoon is over!

OBSERVE POSITIVELY! SHOOT WILDLY! BUT HAVE FUN! :-) To hell with the price 
if you can't afford it! :-)

cheers all,
Dr. ted