Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 8/22/03 7:53:25 AM, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << If one can comfortably use a Leica lens manufactured in, say, 1955, a Leica lens which may not have even then been up to the standards being set by Zeiss and Nikon, and a lens which is now a Coke-bottle-bottom when compared to the latest Leica lenses, why can't one buy a 5 mgp digital camera and be happy with it for the next five to 10 years? >> - ------------------------------------------------- Perhaps two mountain peaks rise through the clouds: Tradition and Content. Leica gives us Tradition. Our talent gives us Content. Those are constants. Lens quality may improve, but always within the Tradition of quality. At this point in time, digital has not earned a tradition. It may never. A Leica label on a camera doesn't bestow Tradition. The fact of quality does. What we accept as defining quality is a personal opinion, until it jells as it did for the Ms as a consensus. As to meaningful Content, that's up to us individually. Combine Tradition with Content and you have matchless quality. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html