Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] was leica marketed as a professional camera or a hobbiest camera?
From: rclompus@cox.net
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:39:10 -0500

Kyle,

Didn't you have a photo of a UFO on your old website?  How'd you put that photo together?

Richard

Richard Clompus
Roaonke, VA 
> 
> From: Kyle Cassidy <KCassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> Date: 2002/03/27 Wed PM 04:27:55 EST
> To: "'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'"
> 	 <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: [Leica] was leica marketed as a professional camera or a hobbiest camera?
> 
> I was in Ye Olde Used Bookstore about two weeks ago and found a nice fat
> heavy Leica book (The Leica Manual 14th edition) in lovely hardback for $15
> so i snatched it up and took it home to read about the fantastic new
> developments made by the M2 leica camera and it's pal the M3.
> 
> Reading the book I was struck by a) how elementary it was and b) how bad the
> photos in it were -- mostly vacation shots and kids fishing. my thought had
> always been that the M3 was produced and marketed as a camera for
> professional photojournalists, and i was expecting it to be filled with news
> tips and doccumentary photos. reading this book, it struck me that perhaps
> it was not (marketed thusly), and the status it has achieved as the choice
> of pro's came much later; that this was just a well engineered german camera
> targeted at hobbiests and weekend snapshooters and later picked up by pros.
> it's very common today for a camera company to have a "pro" line and a
> "consumer" line. I'd assumed that the leica, since the M3 had always been
> marketed as a "pro" line of cameras, with no consumer version till the
> CL.... I'm sure there are a bunch of LHSA people out there who know all the
> ins and outs of this. My question asked, I'll settle back to listen to more
> knowledgeable voices.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> kc
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