Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No your saying Leicas are sold in jewelry stores. Its a snarky put down. One does not have to be a Leica "fanboy" to pick that up. I think you should consider that this list has lots of people who find Leica use very realistic and not elitist. It having a long history of big names and happy dads and moms shooting with them. It long being considered a serious not snotty camera. This is reality not fan boy stuff. If you're not into it maybe join a list which involves gear you ARE into. 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: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:23:41 -0600 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information