Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I want to make one additional observation. I think that it's fascinating to look at the galleries on Hans' new site. The folk who are actually posting images there for us to see for the most part *don't* contribute to these medieval debates over inconsequential differences in lenses. Reminds me of a conversation I once had with a Manhattan flyfisherman after an early hatch on the Housatonic near Cornwall in Connecticut. The fellow was decked out in about four grand worth of Orvis clothing, English reels, and Thompson and Thompson cane rods--was eloquent on the subject of gear, and couldn't cast a fly to save his life. I know; I'd fished near him for a couple of hours. Great equipment, I think, imposes an obligation on its owners to use it well; otherwise it's merely a dilettante's expensive toy. In the academy, we call them "closet creators," all the people who know everything, have great books "completely written" in their heads, are critical of everything, and publish nothing. Chandos At 09:47 AM 2/19/2000 +0000, you wrote: >Yes, equipment matters. But increasingly fine distinctions between very >good types of equipment is not going to make any difference to anyone. >Anybody who owns either aspherical-element 35mm Summilux owns one hell >of a lens. NO ONE who owns either aspherical-element 35mm Summilux gets >brownie points over and above anybody else who happens to own the other >one. That's not what it's all about. Next question? > >--Mike Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http://www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown