Re: [Leica] Pros

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

><Snip> 
> It may be a troll, Mark, but it's a bullseye as well. The Leica M is the
> ultimate pro camera that is used more by "non-pros" than by pros, because
> the majorit of today's pros have been forced by the demands of their jobs to
> use autoeverything cameras.
> 
> B. D.

Any camera with a possible exception of a Sinar P has a thousand non pros using
it for every pro.

It hasn't been established that Leica has lost market share with pros over the
past autoeverything decade.
If it is true that Leica has lost market share to pro's which I doubt I doubt is
it because the demands of their jobs required autoeverything cameras.
Talk to ten pros. How many of them have skate boarders rushing at them at a
million miles an hour with the light changing?
We've been though this before but...
	...and therefore feel they really need and do really need the modern automation.
I suggest such fast breaking photography is not typical to most pros work and
that they know it.
But the modern cameras are just to wonderful to pass up. They may not care. I
used them for a few years and I feel I mastered them.

I say to the doubters, shoot with an M6 for a week or two and you'll find out
why there is a long list of top pros who have that camera as their favored one.
You want to tell these greats who we all know that their camera is not a pro camera!
They will show you their ledger and their photos and look whimsical.
And there are less dramatic examples of pros who always have an M6 around even
if it's not their main camera but wouldn't dream of leaving it at home. Lots of
photogs are in that category.
The M6 remains the most desired and respected and used cameras among other than dilettantes.

I had doubts in the beginning as was only going to use mine for my personal
work. What initially helped change it first and most was a current shot of a war
photographer with a slew of M6's slung all around him. He had just been in a war
was dodging bullets, diving in trenches and had brought back the shots as always
with his Leica M6's.
Covered with dust and dirt and Leicas he looked serious, 
and professional.
Mark Rabiner