[Leica] NEW CAMERA??? LEICA SL.

Fri Aug 19 17:35:48 PDT 2016

Well, Ted,

These "marketing/executive people" are who they are, as a reflection of the
reality of the marketplace.

The reality is similar to manufacturers who create expensive professional
tools: like Steinway, Bösendorfer, and other makers of concert-quality
pianos. They cannot survive selling to artists only, as the number of
artists who can actually afford concert grand pianos that cost $150,000 or
more is very low. So, they have to create special editions which generate
more profit, and use the likes of famous pop artists (in addition to
popular classical artists) to sell their pianos to non-players.

I was a bit flabbergasted, but shouldn't have been surprised when I heard
that 2/3 of Bösendorfers are sold to people who can't play a single note,
and just about all "special editions" are sold to non-players.

Sounds familiar?

So, it's no surprise that Leica uses famous people who dabble at
photography to sell their equipment. Photographers are a small share of
their target market.

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Tina,
> Well LEICA should use you and your IRAN results for promotion of this new
> LEICA 601camera without Question!  Of course payment might be via a new
> LEICA SL (601) camera or a pleasant fee or an all expenses covered? OR
> BETTER fee & TRIP!? Obviously CAMERA & expenses!  :-)
> Given the locations and by available light, IRAN? MY GOODNESS, IF THEY
> DON'T USE YOU AND YOUR MATERIAL?
> ONLY ILLUSTRATES WHAT A COLLECTION OF IDIOTS THEY ARE!
> Unfortunately their marketing/executive people are not that bright in
> using "real highly talented LEICA USING HIGHLY TALENTED" photographers" to
> promote LEICA equipment!
>
> Along the lines of Doug Herr, whom I've attempted over the years to bring
> his incredible "WILD LIFE PHOTOGRAPHER TALENTS USING LEICA GEAR!" To their
> attention on more than one occasion! Same nonsense? With he a wonderful
> talented "Real on location" photojournalist who've supported LEICA for many
> many years without question!" And have promoted LEICA with quality
> photography and incredible LEICA results!
> AND HAVE "ALWAYS BOUGHT & PAID FOR THEIR LEICA EQUIPMENT!"
> Try that on some of the dumb asses they've used who've never shown us one
> "whiz bang very cool talented hold your breathe image to encourage me (A
> LEICA CAMERA BUYER/ USER? 50 years at least 3 LEICA SLR's & 3 M type
> cameras at the same time!)
> However if I were not at the somewhat end of my 65 years as a "working
> published photojournalist and book author! Along with 16 years as the key
> lecturer for the "LEICA Cape Cod SEMINAR?"
> Without  question I would have 3 of these new Leica SLR 601's  and 3 of
> the new M models that fit my assignment requirements. But then that's
> another day and year!
> cheers,
> Dr.Ted Grant O.C.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Tina Manley
> Sent: August-18-16 6:52 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] NEW CAMERA??? LEICA SL.
>
> The Leica SL is the one I've been using lately. Almost all of the Iran
> photos were made with the SL. High ISOs are wonderful with a film-like
> grain instead of noise.  It's the best digital camera Leica has made. I
> only have one SL lens - the 24 to 90, but it does take all Leica M and R
> lenses with adapters.  I don't regret buying it!!
>
> Tina
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Aug 18, 2016, at 5:33 PM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> > A friend sent me a sort of flyer on a new SLR LEICA  "LEICA SL" model.
> >
> > ISO RATE?  50 to 50,000
> > Like with that kind of sensitivity???? "WHO NEEDS LIGHT?"  A quick look
> through advertisment  and it truly appears as a "magical machine? It's
> also?  Mirrorless?
> > Seems like lots of other cool bits, buttons & thing-mee-bobs!
> > Maybe some of you have heard of it or quite possibly played with one?
> > Another interesting bit? With an adapter you can use "M-lenses"???????
> Oh and there were all kinds of new stuff?
> > HOWEVER I DID NOT SEE A PRICE???????? :-( Oh well can't afford one
> anyway!  :-(
> > cheers,
> > Dr. Ted
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
> > Sent: August-15-16 9:32 PM
> > To: Leica Users Group
> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Louisiana
> >
> > ++++1
> >
> > Nathan Wajsman
> > Alicante, Spain
> > http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
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> > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <
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> > YNWA
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> On 16 Aug 2016, at 04:05, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Good to hear you and yours are still fine.
> >> Thank you for sharing that powerful, first hand narrative.
> >>
> >> a note off the iPad, George
> >>
> >> On Aug 15, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> We're fine, so far, no flooding in our area.  Some in Adam's neck of
> the
> >>> swamp, Iowa, La. near Lake Charles, but his subdivision is built on an
> old
> >>> rice field, and though the soil holds water, it also drains well.
> >>>
> >>> Eric is fine in New Orleans, he's had to work from home some as the
> streets
> >>> have some flooding, but his house is pretty high, and his apt. is on
> the
> >>> second floor.
> >>>
> >>> Kathy works for Public Health, and she's likely to go staff shelters
> soon.
> >>>
> >>> I won't mince words, this is a serious disaster.
> >>>
> >>> So far more than 20,000 people are evacuated from their homes.  The
> worst
> >>> is around Baton Rouge, and in the Lafayette area.
> >>>
> >>> More rain today.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you for your concern.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> *The following is not my writing!*
> >>>
> >>> *from Louisiana Voice, a blog I follow:*
> >>>
> >>> Following a leisurely breakfast Saturday morning, we looked out the
> front
> >>> door to see water from the Amite River (a mile from my house) coming
> across
> >>> the street.
> >>>
> >>> That was all the warning we got after feeling confident the night
> before
> >>> that we were in no peril. We scrambled to throw some clothing into
> garbage
> >>> bags, gathered our medications and put our dogs on leashes as the water
> >>> poured into the home where we had been living the past 22 years.
> >>>
> >>> Shortly after, a flotilla from the West Baton Rouge Sheriff’s
> Department
> >>> (that’s West Baton Rouge, as in across two rivers—the Amite and the
> >>> Mississippi—and two parishes to the west of us) arrived as we
> struggled to
> >>> raise heavy furniture. The deputy who came to our door told us it was
> >>> useless because the water was going to go much higher than where we
> were
> >>> trying to raise it. He helped be complete the task anyway—something he
> >>> didn’t have to do, but did anyway out of compassion for our plight
> which
> >>> was growing more desperate by the minute.
> >>>
> >>> He helped carry our bags of clothing and our small dog and I bodily
> carried
> >>> our Chow-Golden Retriever mix through the filthy, swirling water that
> was
> >>> by now deeper than the tops of my white shrimp boots (a required part
> of
> >>> the uniform if you live in South Louisiana). Needless to say the
> weight of
> >>> two boots filled with brown river water made jumping onto tho flotilla
> >>> impossible so a pair of deputies bodily lifted me aboard even as an
> >>> untimely cramp in my right calf prohibited me from being of much help
> to my
> >>> own rescue.
> >>>
> >>> Once aboard, another smaller boat pulled alongside carrying a family
> with a
> >>> special needs teenage boy. His wheelchair was lifted onto the flotilla
> and
> >>> his father, who lived behind our home on an adjacent street, lifted his
> >>> helpless, diapered atrophied son and placed him gingerly onto his
> >>> wheelchair. It was as I watched that boy, unable to even raise his head
> >>> that I came to the realization that even though I was losing my home,
> both
> >>> vehicles, my record collection, my books and my computer, our losses
> were
> >>> insignificant.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Jim Hemenway <jim at hemenway.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone heard from Sonny Carter?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is he on high ground down there in Louisiana/
> >>>>
> >>>> Jim
> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Regards,
> >>>
> >>> Sonny
> >>> http://sonc.com/look/
> >>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
> >>> 1714
> >>> Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase
> >>>
> >>> USA
> >>>
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