[Leica] 50 APO Summicron on sale.... Overstock.com

[Bill Pearce]

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/



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