Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03

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Subject: [Leica] Cameras Real Pros Use PLEASE KILL THIS THREAD
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 11:26:15 -0800
References: <CCE26501.273C3%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Dec 3, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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