Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]With all due respect, Don, what color is the sky in your world? I love my Leica equipment, and I made a living as a professional photographer most of my life. I used Nikon 35mm equipment for a lot of obvious and non-obvious reasons. One of them was reliability. I am one of those pros who put thousands of exposures on a body and lenses. Frankly, my equipment never did anything but produce good, sharp and well-exposed images while I and the IRS owned it. If the pro-line stuff made by folks like Nikon and Canon (and any other company that does so) weren't really good, no one would use it to make all of those published images you see every day. Yes, Leica makes them just as well, arguably the best of any. But it takes oh, so long to depreciate it! (And that big, floppy salvage value . . .). Don't sell pros short, they know their business well because they do it ever day - and they're not stupid. Phil - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 4:50 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] To cheer up: now in praise of Leica > The real point is that many of us are using camera's and lenses 40 to 60 > years old as if they were fresh out the box, no worries. The images are > competitive, if we want to spend more money we can get state of the art > lenses and use them on cameras 47 years old, or vice versa if we want an old > look with new hardware. I don't think any system out there can take the > pounding that these Leica's take and keep ticking. This includes the N**** > F. > > I have a friend who used to shoot trains with his SL2 MOT. Set up on a > tripod in the yard, focus on an engine, load a roll of 36 chrome, let it > rip. Repeat until you had 1000 frames or so. Focus on a new engine, do the > same. He did this day after day, brick after brick after brick, his SL2 is > still in good condition. Ted has put haw many thousand frames through his > M's with how little service? Compare that with the newer Japanese hardware, > where something goes wrong after 10,000 frames or so. Yes, there are counter > examples but on average the examples hold. > > So, yes, we should complain loudly to Solms when QC doesn't. But we should > remember that once in good order, these gadgets run a lot of film with > almost no complaint. > > Don Dory > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html