Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:51 AM 5/3/99 -0700, you wrote: > If the Leica were so good and there was a REAL competitive edge >to the single digit percetages a leica lens yields over Canon and Nikon, >then all the photogs would be using R8s wouldn't they? But apparently, we >all continue to justify what we own. The only people we seem to have to justify our choice of Leica R8 to is to people who don't know anything about them (i.e. never used them). You are asking the wrong question. If Leica had a more effective marketing effort, would they be in the hands of more professionals? I say yes. The next few years should prove that. (See my previous post on AF). Most photojournalists I know who shoot more than sports all turn the AF quite often when they don't really need it. It often gets in the way. >"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a >nail. >- Abraham H. Maslow" Maslow always says his name at the end of a statement? :-) Great quote. I use a favorite principle he must have written: Principle of the instrument. Give a child a hammer and everything he encounters requires hammering. Or maybe: Give a photojournalist a new lens, and every assignment he gets needs that particular lens. Seems to last a week for me before I rediscover my other lenses. :-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch He who laughs last thinks slowest!