RE: [Leica] Konica facts

["Tim Atherton" <tim@KairosPhoto.com>]

Aw common Mark, you're a great photographer - but BS!

There is really no such thing as Leica photography - only photography you do
with a Leica - full stop.

The Leica is just a tool - a pretty good one most of the time, but it often
falls short in different way. To get the job done I often  take along other
cameras because the Leica M won't always do what is needed. (shooting
Armenian diamond cutters in a night club on new years eve when it's
basically too dark even to see through the viewfinder of an M apart from the
odd blinding flash of disco light! - AF and ttl flash) Like any tool it has
it's limitations and I take photographs, make images. I don't just pack up
and go home because it's a shot the leica won't do. I love what my M does,
but it's not always the first camera I grab. And I often take the same shots
with my Nikon as I would with the Leica, because the Leica is in my hand -
they aren't Nikon photography because of it... they are just photography.

Tim A



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
> Rabiner
> Sent: May 9, 2001 9:43 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Konica facts
>
>
> Dan Honemann wrote:
> >
> > > Why not just use the Konica lenses on the Hexar body and
> Leica lenses on
> > > the Leica body and avoid all compatibility problems?
> >
> > Because a lot of folks who are already heavily invested in Leica lenses
> > would love to be able to use them with any or all of the following
> > functions:
> >
> > -- a usable 1/125s flash synch
> > -- a self-timer
> > -- 1/4000s top shutter speed
> > -- quiet, built-in motor drive
> > -- AE and AEL
> >
> > If Leica offered these in an M body, I'd be first in line to buy it.
> >
> > Dan
>
> Dan all the above features would not be anywhere near enought to
> get me to put
> my Leica glass on their camera. Not even close.
> I'm GLAD the Leica lenes don't fit the damn konicas. I'm sick of
> hearing about them.
> Sorry!
> Leica photography is what I'm interested in surprisingly enough.
> That's why I'm on the LUG: the Leica list.
>  -- AE and AEL? bullcrap!!!
>  -- quiet, built-in motor drive? buzz buzz whiz gee whiz that is
> not what Leica
> is about at all.
>  -- 1/4000s top shutter speed? who needs it? I've got cameras
> which go to 1/8000
> which sit and rot.
>  -- a self-timer? fru fur stuff I've got a separate add on one i
> never use. Not
> on my Rolleiflex or Hasselblad either.
> -- a usable 1/125s flash synch? might be nice but just not what
> Leica m has ever
> been about.
> I wish the cloth shutters were still made of silk! I've done
> plenty of flash at
> a 50th it's not the end of the world. You just need a brighter flash.
>
> The whole Konica deal is not the Leica deal at all. A worthy
> camera. But my head
> set is with Leica.
>
>
> Mark Rabiner
>
> Portland, Oregon
> USA
>
> http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/
>