Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is good news and bad news. The good news is that you need only the gear that you will actually use and get along with. The other good news is that for an M camera, there is only so much of this stuff. You can feel you have all the lenses you could want with at most 4 or 5, and as few as 1. (Compared to an EOS system where it's no trick at all to have move than 10.) The bad news is that *some* new gear *will* let you make different/better/new/more interesting pictures. It's a fact, the 75f1.4 does change you picture making, probably for the better. The other bad news is that Gear Mania Addiction is a powerful syndrome present in many many activities. I have a friend (who sometimes posts here) who has tried to make rules like "make at least one exposure every day" or "make one print you could try to sell in gallery each month". This seems to help divert one from pinning away for new gear all the time. (but I'm told it doesn't count if I don't actually print the negatives. I claim the little 4x6 prints from the lab do count. debate continues...) bmw