Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Rei I don't think MPs were snake oil and if I didn't have M3s and M6s my choice would be an MP. It looked to me as if the company saw some of their marketing errors and hoped to regroup with a mechanical camera. If I wanted an automated camera it would be a Nikon or Canon. Personally, I prefer the M6 and the idea of changing dial designs (M6TTL) seemed idiotic. The years I spent shooting professionally convinced me of a few "golden rules". One of the most important is to keep the equipment I carry the same. Same bodies, different focal lengths. I don't even want to look at the settings while shooting but dial them by feel. As far as not working professionally, there are some misconceptions about that. Anyone can use a camera and learn to do it well. I even doctor myself from time to time without ill effects. If you are doing something which excites you that is what counts. If you are doing an assignment for a national magazine even cow poop photos must look good. That is the biggest difference. Walt p.s Recently has surgery and reluctantly let the doctor do it. :-) Rei Shinozuka wrote: > I am no working professional, but I would like to defend the mp as > more than marketing snake-oil. Prior to the mp, my favorite camera > was the m6 0.85 and I also had an m3 upgraded to m6-style loading. In > short, the mp contained for me the functionality of a somewhat rare > model of m6 and a complicated conversion job on a long-discontinued > model. Again, I am not a working professional (in photography) but > this does not necessarily invalidate those things I appreciate in a > fine camera. And the mp embodied many of those virtues. > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 9:46 am, Walt Johnson wrote: > ... Time will tell, but look at the Leitz shenanigans just in the last > few years. From M6 to M6TTl to M7 and then back to the M3 or was that > MP? Marketing nonsense, not tools for working professionals. > -rei > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >