Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:18 AM 6/22/98 +0200, you wrote: >The odd Leica user that tries hard with technical expertise to produce >a good home made print must also realise that his hard work and >expensive equipment will be totally outclassed by a photographer in >medium format, for half the effort with a cheap used Rollieflex. It's not true. We can shoot the heck around Rollieflex cameras in low light. With extreme telephotos and wide angles, we have MF beat all to heck for many functions you just can't do with those bigger cameras. It's not an either/or situation after all. You can own both, and use each for its strengths. Just try to capture the feel of the 15mm lens, or the 400 2.8 with a Rollei. If you could actually mount a lens on the Rollei to do that, you'd have to be as rich as Bill Gates to own the stuff, which doesn't exist. Like Leica R and M, or Apples and Oranges, or George and Gracie, they don't make the other of no worth, they just are different. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. William Drumond, Scottish writer (1585-1649)