Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why, Chandos? So long as you can buy film, which is for a very long time, you do not have to care about what Tina or Ted or any other pro uses. That is the beauty of being an amateur--nobody is going to force you to go digital--it is purely your decision, not driven by deadlines, the need to email the picture to the editor 5 minutes after it was taken etc. I too have a substantial amount invested in Leica, but I do not care in the slightest what happens to its value. I mostly sell stuff when I want to buy some other similar stuff, so as long as the prices go down more or less uniformly on all Leica M gear, I will be fine. The return I expect from my Leica investment is measured in images produced and the pleasure I derive from it, not money. Nathan Chandos Michael Brown wrote: > Tina, > > I think that you've inadvertently (and accurately) sounded a death knell > for the LUG as a place where professional photographers gather to > discuss the use of M gear (forgive me folks, but I know jack about the > slrs). I'm an amateur photographer; I've spent a substantial sum of > money on my gear, but I am depressingly aware that I'll recover > comparatively little of it. I own four M bodies and eight or nine > lenses, and I doubt that I could convert these into even a basic > equivalent digital outfit (one body--a couple of decent lenses) without > a substantial outlay of cash, which I don't have for this purpose. I > suspect that there are many who confront the same issue. > > I admire you (and the others who are making and acting on the same > decision); at the same time, I find this vaguely depressing. > > When Ted goes digital, we are lost. > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: nathanw@bluewin.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html