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Subject: [Leica] 2500 ISO
From: tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)
Date: Tue Nov 7 07:39:25 2006
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Jayanand Govindaraj offered:
Subject: Re: [Leica] 2500 ISO


> Frank,
> The top end Canons and Nikons are the not the competition for an M8, it is 
> the mid level SLRs. I cannot imagine someone who needs a D2X or an IDS Mk2 
> for his professional work ever buying a M8 in lieu of either - it is just 
> not flexible enough, (Tina and Ted excepted).<<<

Jayanand mon ami,
Once again you are showing your misunderstanding of how we photographers 
work:

>>I cannot imagine someone who needs a D2X or an
> IDS Mk2 for his professional work ever buying a M8 in lieu of either - it 
> is just not flexible enough, >>>>

We do not buy M8's in lieu of SLR cameras, but rather as support model to 
model. More often than not it's the assignment we're working on that 
dictates which gear we use. If you don't have the necessary tools of the 
profession to capture the moments expected of you, it isn't long before you 
become a forgotten entity by editors and art directors.

A carpenter has more than one hammer for his work as do dentists different 
tools for fixing teeth. And they have them irrespective of cost.

We are the same. For example, I have 3 motor driven R8's and had 3 M7's or 
various versions of M cameras always at the ready just in case, whatever the 
assignment. They didn't replace each other but were often used all at the 
same time depending on the necessity of what the assignment called for. Or 
simply as support.

Or shooting sports, the Olympics for example, the M's were rarely ever used 
as it was " long glass 99,9999999999% of the time." So was it wrong for me 
to spend the money for M's if not used during a 3 week period?

Like I said before.... Our world is quite different than you imagine.

ted 


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