[Leica] re: leica name recognition

[KCassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy)]

kit sed:

>Leica sales suffer from not being promoted properly by 
>salesfolks in the camera business. It's just easier to 
>sell an SLR that everyone has heard of in the latest magazines 

i can guarrentee you that every one of those photographers in that line with
the 300mm f 2.8 lens on the monopod waiting for the president to get out of
marine one knows what a leica is. it's not name recognition, it's
practicality. i'm sure a good percentage of them would love to be using a
leica to do their job but they'd get consistantly beaten to the punch by all
the people with the white lenses and never sell a photo. i see there's a 4
gigabyte hitachi microdrive now -- that's a lot of photos without having to
open up the back of your camera. and despite what mark r. says about the
metering system on 30 year old cameras, it doesn't hold a candle to matrix
metering when you're doing something like daylight balenced fill flash.
imho, that's the reason the pro's (ted and sal excepted, of course) arent
using leicas, not because they don't know what they are or because leica's
advertising campaing is sub-par.

my .02 take it for what it's worth.

kc