[Leica] The sad state of leica cameras

[s.jessurun95 at chello.nl (animal)]

This is a nice development .The owners of our cameras admitting them to
be mere relics of days past.
Great let all join in the luxury of total control with large arrays and
supercomputing PS 119
Let film and it,s users hibernate and devellop quitely somewhere in some
forgotten corner.
It wont be long before the look we maybe take for granted is not known
anymore to the masses.
Then the time will be perfect for a revival .
Now how do i make a darkroom?
Using high speed tape to fill cracks there has to be a cheaper way.
simon
p.s. what war?

| Probably not. Because the sad reality is that the Leica was killed by
| the Nikon F and the evolution of the SLR. Yes, some enlightened folks
| kept using rangefinders, but the rangefinder ceased to be the prime PJ
| camera. And from that point forward the M became more and more of a
| hobbyist's camera.
|
| That's not to say that there aren't hobbyists who are brilliant
| photographers, nor is it to say that there weren't, and aren't pros
who
| continued to use Leica Ms...but if there was a meteor, it was the
modern
| SLR, with instant return mirror, auto-diaphragm lenses, and shortly
| there after, ttl metering. And THEN came built-in motors, etc. etc.
etc.
| And THEN came digital...But by the time digital became real, the war
was
| long lost. :-)
|
| B. D.
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
| [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of
| Peter Dzwig
| Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 2:19 PM
| To: Leica Users Group
| Subject: Re: [Leica] The sad state of leica cameras
|
|
|
|
| B. D. Colen wrote:
|
| > I don't know that that's particularly encouraging - what it says to
me
|
| > is that the Leica has become the camera of rich dilettantes. (Note
| > that the article wasn't about the photographer and "accomplished
| > actress," Whomever, but about the actress, and, parenthetically, the
| > accomplished photographer.
| >
| > Face it folks, we're dinosaurs...:-)
|
|
| RRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!
|
| Remember the dinosaurs didn't die out because they were out-evolved.
| They were
| blasted by a meteorite which changed the atmosphere so much that the
| only things
| that survived were the mammals and (some of) the stuff in the sea.
|
| Is that a metaphor for digital photography.....
|
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