Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/07

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Subject: [Leica] 2500 ISO
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Nov 7 17:02:47 2006
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Ted,
Amen.
Cheers
Jayanand

Ted Grant wrote:

> 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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In reply to: Message from red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone) ([Leica] 2500 ISO)
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