Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > -- > 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