Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/12

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: other leica lenses...
From: "John Hudson" <jahudson@direct.ca>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 11:25:53 -0800

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From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, March 12, 1999 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: other leica lenses...


>Usually, but not exclusively.  I use Leicas for the bodies, not the lenses.
> If I lost my M6s, and could only replace them with some totally redesigned
>modern M7, chances are that I would trade in my lenses.   Alternatively,  I
>wouldn't dream of trying to fit a Leica lens onto any of my other Japanese
>cameras, even if it were possible.  The alternative optics are simply not
>that significantly inferior to make that big a fuss over, IMHO.
>
>And a photograph is just a photograph.  There is not such thing as "Leica"
>photographs, or "nikon" photographs, etc.    There has to be more to the
>content of a photograph then microscopic clues as to which optical system
>produced it.  Otherwise, what is the point to photography?
>
>Again, IMHO.


This has got to be one of the most intelligent messages ever to appear on
this list.

Again, IMHO.

jh