Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:49 PM 4/28/99 -0400, you wrote: >Don, > >when was the last time you actually took a picture? :=) > > >Alistair > >f8 and... oops, sorry, pressure plate...and be there One pressure plate comment, and then silence - promise. While I certainly understand the "oh grow up and take some pictures" sentiments of the Teds, Jims, Alistairs, etc., I don't know that the sentiment helps Leica. For a lot of Leica owner/users, the purchase of this camera is probably the biggest single disposable income/hobby/pleasure expenditure of their lives. They come to it after years of waiting and using "inferior" equipment. They have been won over/sucked in by the Leica Legend. And part of that Legend is the perfection of the Leica as a mechanical device, built to tolerances that would do a baby flea proud...When they then see that this pinnacle of the camera makers art scratches their film, and the attitude of certain senior aficionados, friends of Leica, is "well, hell man, it's only 100 cameras" (and, by the way, if you believe that I have a load of Pinto gas tanks you might be interested in - if any corporation acknowledges 100 errors, assume it's at least 1000) and "what do you want, Fritz was sick for a few days," they are going to get ticked off and upset. If Leica really wants to sell more cameras, and really wants to sell them to "amateurs" who want to own the best, then Leica damn well better produce "the best" and jump through hoops when it fails to. At least that's the way I see it - as if that mattered to anyone but me and my dog..:-) I guess I'll just shut up and go take some PITCHERS.. An awful lot of Leica owners