Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have had the F5; nothing wrong with it! I like the balance, bulk and I wish Leica glass was available in that mount or a Leica body would have those features. Have you heard of motor drive? Of course, you can always get yourself an F and not worry about batteries! That is if you HAVE to have Nikon glass. Unfortunately, I find that a large segment of the Leica buyers nowadays are retro minded yuppies, who tend to baby them way too much, hardly ever use them and wait for the stuff to appreciate in order for them to be happy they got their investment rewarded. As it has been said on this list at least a thousand times: it is pictures that count. The difference between a shot taken and one missed is enormously more important than the difference between one shot with Leica glass and one shot with CNMP (I have "acronamed" the major sellers here). Yes, rangefinders are great machines, especially in low light and with a wide angle, but for telephoto work?! Give me a break! Don't start a Viso thread from this now. And also, in telephoto photography, good AF is very welcome. I wish Leica came up with the fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, neural networks, or whatever the F5, EOS-3 and 1 V have in there. I can tell you my pictures taken with my Elmarit R 180/2.8 wide open of my nephews at 10-20' are worse than the ones taken with NIkon's 80=200/2.8. But then there must be an army working on research in AI at either of the CNM. On the other hand, if I take a picture of something distant, there is no comparison. :-) But all these are just tools! The pictures count. Let's not be so self righteous, the other glasss isn't all that bad. We just suffer of a rare disease which manifests itself in an obsession with resolution, contrast, precise machining and the best glass in the business. 99.9% of the people out there simply don't care. Now, if I could get those Rollei medium format slides monted.......... Cheer up! It's springtime! Have a nice week-end, Lucian On Sat, 13 May 2000, Simon Lamb wrote: > Jeremy > > You must be a much better photgrapher than those thousands of pros who > use the F5 (and EOS 1 for that matter), to be able to label it a piece > of junk without using it. How I envy to the ability to assess the > relative merits of photographic equipment through mere thought waves. > > Simon > > J Vaughan wrote: > > > Thanks everyone for giving me all the info on the F5... > > As I suspected it is a piece of Junk and and all its hype is just > > that... > > Damn Battery eaters... ;-) > > > > I won't be buying Leica SLR, thank you > > > > Jeremy > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > > >