Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/20

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Subject: [Leica] Late night musings after a long but interesting day.
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:49:43 -0700
References: <200010210314.UAA26565@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

At 11:47 PM 10/20/00 -0500, Mike Johnston wrote:
>
>But I *would* like to see something...subversive. Unabashedly utilitarian.
>Anti-collector. Again, nothing against the collectors. I just get a bit
>overstuffed with all the limited-edition, carriage-trade marketing gimmicks,
>one after the next. It's all so damned...precious. I know, I know, it's what
>they feel they need to do to survive, and that's fine with me. I just don't
>feel I'm being served.
>
>It would be nice if there were a workingman's Leica.
>
>--Mike

There is, of course, a "workingman's Leica. All of them. M6, R6.2, R8. How
much more working can you get. Mechanical and/or electronic. Take your
choice. There are a whole lot of working folks in this world today making a
good living with these very cameras. They certainly don't need "brass gears
and the silken feel of the M4." That's for dabblers, dreamers, fondlers,
and writers.

You are a dabbler, a dreamer, a writer. Not a serious get out and get the
job done user. They will never "serve" you. They are serving the world of
real photographers.

Solms makes great and wonderful photographic equipment. The lenses are
unparalleled. And there is a used market out there to outfit any budget.
But if you are going to produce the goods for a paying client, the new
stuff will make you look extra good. And the guy paying the bill could care
less about the paint, gears, TTL, a silly millimeter, big shutter knob, or
whatever. He wants stunning images. And that is what the latest Leica
equipment produces. Images more stunning than ever before.

Want something, currently made, that is "unabashedly utilitarian?" Buy a
"0" A great camera for utilitarian dabblers.

Jim

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