Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett wrote: > > lugnutz, > > felt a need to weigh in on the 'gauntlet' question: > > G I V E I T A B R E A K ! > > if you don't think that leica cameras/lenses/red dots/whatever produce > *special* results (however you choose define that), why use them, > especially as less expensive, equally functional (and arguably equally > *special*) camera equipment is widely available? > > your very presence here on this list (assuming you are all leica > owners/users) would seem to suggest that you did feel your leica material > was worth the cost, for whatever reason. > > so what is the reason if image quality is not? > > yo, as it were. > > guy While we all think our Leicas and Leica lenses are worth the cost and love them dearly, this has no baring what ever on the question of their superiority. I love mine and use it because I am so familiar with its functions I can probably do all of them in my sleep. I love my Leicas because I can see through the viewfinder with my glasses on, almost. I love mine because it fits my hand nicely and my fingers fall on the controls easily. I love mine because I don't have to flatten my nose holding the camera for a horizontal photo. None of these reasons has anything to do with the question of measurable superiority to any other camera systems. I have tried many different cameras in the past and at present I am using my Leica M-2, and Olympus OM4-T, a Contax G2, a SuperIkonta B 532-16, a Fuji 645s, a Rolli-t, a Bronica rtsi, and a Nikon digital camera, and a couple of Olympus point and shoots. I have a 5x7 I have not yet tried, maybe some day. But after all is said and done, I seem to always come back to a Leica. I have agonized over why, and I can only say that in the final analysis it fits me and my photographic style and being such high quality is really just a big scrumptious bonus, because even if it is proven that camera x is better made, and has better lenses, I doubt it would change my love for my Leica in any way. John