Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Guy, >Just out of curiosity, does the writer post under the name "Negresco"? Call >me overly sensitive to prose style, but I seem to recognize his.... > >--Mike though i didn't pay attention to the name, i believe this is the guy (located in bev hills, that locus of taste and science). his rhetorical m.o. is always the same: give a high-falootin' but shaggy historical description of the leica camera, move on to say why the item in question is at the top of the leitz list, then briefly describe the item actually for sale in prose so full of hyperbole as to partake of the mythological. in the description i posted, i just loved the part about the summar being the nec plus ultra of contrast and sharpness! ah, and to think that there may be some one out there who still believes what they read (uh oh, that's a dangerous statement here on the lug!), who may pick up the lens for that reason... oh well, caveat hektor... i mean 'emptor.' guy