[Leica] Re:Leica R lenses on Canon Digital Bodies

[FELIXMATURANA at telefonica.net (Félix López de Maturana)]

>And sometimes people decide they want the performance, cost be damned!  Yes 
>I could get 90% of the performance of the 280 f/4 APO with Canon's 
>excellent >EF 300mm f/4 for a lot less money but I'm not interested in 90% 
>performance.


This is the raison d'?tre of every owner of Leica equipment -and BTW of 
Carl Zeis owners too- but does not correspond  in every case to rational 
but emotional approaches. In a logical world adding the sum of all the 
savings you make choosing the more economical and almost so efficient 
options you can get something more really important like a car, domestic 
appliances or finance a son studies. This is a philosophy that explain 
that more and more professionals are shooting with other equipment while 
many exigent amateurs remain using Leica where a standard lens of 50mm 
may cost $2.495 while another 50mm of a very reputed manufacturer do 
cost $229,95. But this is not the main issue but the *lack* of what some 
of us do think is important as the digital cameras or digital backs. 
Again most professionals will abandon such rigid position unable to 
follow the true necessities of pro photographers. Not to speak of 
arrogance of Leica people when say that some kind of equipment -which by 
the way could be marketed extraordinary well- do not fulfill their 
traditional level of quality. A commercial company has to produce money 
for their shareholders not to be proud and plenty of auto satisfaction 
collecting losses. Consequently they will commercially die.

Meanwhile we, proud and emotional Leica owners, will get the best 
technically perfect images that a camera may produce. Like Wagner's 
Twilight of the gods we assist plenty of satisfaction at the end of an era.

Felix