Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information