Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scott and Emmanuel, Most people understand the trade-off they are making. The price quality curve gets very steep very fast. In film you can buy a used QL-17 for about a hundred bucks. An M6 in decent condition goes for about 1200. Those of us who own Leica's are toward the edge of the financial curve or are somewhat crazed and have very shifted priorites. Take wine, you would think that someone would prefer a nice $20 something bottle of Boudeaux stored for five or six years until it is just getting interesting. Nope, let me have that bottle of $9 something red wine. Or take the speaker Apple sells for their I-pods when you want to listen to music a home. The Bose are about $50 more than the cheap and nasty ones but the cheap and nasty outsell by 10 or 20 to one. Only when something is near and dear will people pay for the better quality. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 1/16/06, EPL <manolito@videotron.ca> wrote: > > Scott McLoughlin wrote (brilliantly): > > >It's really pretty sad. You know, the heck with religion. We need a > >"sensory jihad." Show the faithful a few 8x10 platinum prints, give > >them some real Italian pizza and gelato, feel the cool caress of a well > >worn Indian Madras shirt or the heft and density of a nice Austrian > >loden cloth coat, let them listen to well recorded music (Chesky or > >something) on a good stereo system. Let them have a peek at sensory > >heaven, as it were. That'll make folks hopping mad about what they've > >been missing and ready for a good fight :-) > > To which I can only add: show them too what a Leica M can do with slide > film > (which the company should've started doing five years ago, while there was > hope). > > Emanuel > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >