Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd like to think that might be possible, Lucien. But i think that rangefinders are largely perceived to be antiquated by the majority of folks my age. Names like Voightlander also hold very little meaning for amateur photographers of my generation down here in the south pacific. That's assuming that some have heard the Voightlander name. I think there arose some turnaround in the SLR marketing of the world that changed the majority of consumers minds to believe the SLR was the best mode of camera operation-Faster, more accurate focussing etc. The other thing that has always confused me is the "image quality" argument that Alan Ball raised, and it's also tied up with the element of photographic science that has been mentioned. Many amateur's i know take photographs that are often viewed only once when they bring them home from the lab/chemist who processed them. This relates to the disposability factor i mentioned in the previous post. Many of the images only become important for a second viewing when there has been a certain amount of time past. A "bad" photo, over-exposed/under-exposed, is like a comma before they see the next "good" one. The perspective appears to be 'Unfortunate, but probably not altogether irreplaceable.' Image quality becomes highly relative. For example the friend who decided to buy the Canon. After having used a $50 P&S, his Canon with a decent L gave him dramatically better shots and this made him happy. Who am I to pull out photos taken with my Summicron on an "old" Leica, put them on the table and show up his pictures? ;-) Take care, Gary Lucien wrote: >A market for the future Voitglander/Cosina rangefinder ? I wrote: > Peter raised an interesting point about Leica marketing missing the > Generation X market. snip > Very few twenty-somethings can afford to buy Leica.