Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica bashing
From: Scott Busby <reconair@primenet.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 18:42:08 -0700

Very interesting point of view, I must say.

Scott
(and humorous)

sam alexander wrote:

> The current issue (11/14) of Amateur Photographer (UK) has a flame-producing
> letter from an irate mr. Paul Greenwood of Middelwich. In light of some
> recent LUG threads on the subject, I thought some might find it amusing.
> His letter, apparently in response to a prior article on Leica cameras, says:
> . . ."I wish these Leica owners would take pics to prove their point
> instead of bragging about the technical brilliance of the product. What you
> lot should really do is go out in your S-class Mercedes and take some shots
> through the window. Then the rest can see what you're made of. If you
> can't, go home, polish your multifaceted, mechanical masterpiece, lay it
> gently in its velvet-lined, mahogany presentation casket, and shut up!"
> (it gets better):
> "You're wasting valuable magazine space when it could be used by people who
> are serious about their photographs rather than some old-fashioned and
> expensive ornament. That these things are auctioned at Christie's is due
> solely to the signature of that menace Cartier-Bresson who thought it was
> clever to take pictures of strangers quietly picking their noses, as long
> as they weren't looking.
> (and the best): The Leica is the Frank Sinatra of cameras - brilliant in
> its day, but now pushing up the dasies. David Baily could produce inifitely
> better results with an old Zorki 4 than I ever could with a Leica. Good
> photographs are in the eye, not the machine."
>
> Also In this issue, the Leica Minilux zoom is tested against 4 other compacts.
> It placed third behind the Contax TVS and was blown away by the winner, a
> Ricoh GR1.