Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have an EOS for color slide work. I bought it for an assignment on the Border, or El Bordo, years ago. I kept hoping it would break so that I could justify buying something_better_. This thing has gone through the literal mill, from the ocean to the desert, from the air to the subterranean depths, and it still works. The body and lenses have hit, banged, dropped, bounced off of everything from a mexican taxi to a bobbing tugboat. Yet to this day, it still works. Just yesterday I took the EOS out for jaunt of several hours to an aluminum foundry and manufacturing site. Judging from Canon's effort in digital photography, you can bet I'll get a digital body for my current lenses. I don't anticipating Leica being anywhere close to what's already underway in the commercial world, or as least anytime soon from our current vantage. All that said and done, I wouldn't dream of dumping my Leica gear. Slobodan Dimitrov kyle cassidy wrote: > > >I'd bet that if these two cameras were dropped from two stories onto a > >cement sidewalk, the EOS would cease to exist, but the Leica would be able > >to still take pictures...I'll even let you drop the EOS first... > i'll wager too you're probably underestimating the EOS, i don't own one, but > i'd guess they're sturdily constructed. (i'd also guess that even a small > drop would > damage the innards of both an EOS and a Leica. while the outsides may be > made of metal, a lot of the guts are very fragile.) > · - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html