Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Small, quiet, low light focussing and slow-speed hand holding, reliable as hell after inevitable factory defects are repaired, fast lenses if you can afford them, carry a bag full on one shoulder and hardly notice it.... If your equipment is older and weathered, or 'black-taped', etc...it is FAR less intrusive than the F5/EOS crowd with their phallic lenses, etc.....use of short lenses traditionally means more involvement with subjects, more intimacy....you don't look like a "professional newsman"........ This drivel assumes of course that you're talking about M-leicas, which is the subject of this reflector (!)......(yeah, I know, but read the charter) Other reasons would fall into the "I like them" category. Walt On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Guy Bennett wrote: > >Why do professionals rarely use Leicas? Well the reason is NOT that so many > >non-professionals do so! This is where I can merely say...nothing. > > > lugnuts (professionals or not): > > can you say, concisely, why you do use leica? what is it exactly about > these cameras that appeals to you? let's try to avoid the hyperbole of the > fanatic devotee and explain why we choose this camera over another. > > guy >