Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I wouldn't consider what I have said to be "Intensely" negative, except to mindless fanboys. It is only my experience. Even in the sixties and seventies, I found stores that sold Leicas to be stuffy places that only sold their fine wares to the rich. I can remember being shooed away from the Leica counter to a Pentax by a salesman that considered me unworthy. In have an M9 (the second Leica I have owned), and shoot it with pleasure. And to be honest, in the last few days, this list has been getting a little too fanboy for my taste. I may take a month off. Bill Pearce -----Original Message----- From: jon.streeter Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 2:56 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use The Leica store in Pasadena did look like a jewelry store, now that I think about. Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use Date: Sun, Dec 2, 2012 11:58 pm My Leicas I got from camera world in Portland or B&H in NY or one lens from Glazers in Seattle. All look like camera stores and not the slightest bit like jewelry stores. Where does stuff like this come from I wonder? If ones approach to Leica is so intensely negative why involve yourself with it or be on a Leica list? Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:24:35 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use > > AS someone who has been a professional since the early seventies, I can > tell > you that film Leicas were always the very most expensive, and always sold in > stores that resembled jewelry stores. This business isn't news. There may > have been a time when Leicas were affordable to pros, but that time was the > forties and fifties. -----Original Message----- From: jon.streeter _______________________________________________ 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