Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was once employeed by a large factory, nad the chief photographer required that we all use the company's RB67's. HAND HELD! the glass was in no way Zeiss. Later when I went out on my own, I jumped into blad gear with both feet. Still got it,can't bring myself to sell it, even though I'm mainly out of film. They are worth the money in every way. And when I had my brief flirtation with Contax g cameras, I used their zeiss lenses, manufactured by Kyocera under strict Zeiss supervision. I still miss those lenses, especially the 28. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Rabiner Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 11:49 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] 50 APO Summicron on sale.... Overstock.com This is a culture which embraces safe mediocre bourgeois values and is put off by anything which results in excellence. And feels super threatened by a premium product to the extent that have have to come up with lame put downs on it. In the 90's if you wanted to get a premium product and do really quality commercial work you could get Zeiss for Hasselblad lenses which cost a decimal point over it competition which came on the scene late: Bronica, Mamiya, Pentax and people would say the quality of the Hassy glass made for negs which were "difficult to print". Which is blithering nonsense as we'd been making perfect images from Hassy Zeiss glass for decades which defined the decade in the commercial world.. And not that different from Leica in 35mm price wise and BS wise. People who are not in the mindset to invest in a premium product say "you'll never see the difference anyway" but then don't stop there they go on to say "getting quality that good presets problems". But then they're not trying to fool anybody they're just trying to change the subject. -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information