Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/13

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Subject: [Leica] Re: RF / SLR
From: charlie at droolassicpark.com (Charlie Meyer)
Date: Sat Jan 13 09:51:16 2007
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Hear! Hear! While there is a 'cachet' for having a Red Dot (which,  
absent several lucky Powerball numbers, for me isn't in the cards),  
I'm just pleased as punch with my M3.  In a world of plastic  
electronic cameras, using an elegantly designed, superbly engineered,  
metal, mechanical RF camera is a joy in itself.  Unlike the first  
'pro' digitals of several years ago that have long been dumped on the  
plastic scrapheap of history, until there's no more film, I like what  
I have.  I too am glad that the non-users are keeping Leica alive, if  
for the sake of glass alone.  If it takes an a la carte leopard skin  
covering to cater to the moneyed set, it has to be better than  
renting your sister by the half-hour. :)

Was reading a 1980 Kodak book on photography yesterday.  On the  
subject of cameras, they have a Barnack and a R pictured, relegating  
RF to a cheap 'point and shoot' status, and the SLR was what  
'serious' photographers used.  The featured Olympus OM2, an example  
of 'state of the art' then, is now but a quaint example of Disco-Era  
technology.    Thirty, forty, and fifty year old Ms have weathered  
the passage of time, obsolescence, and depreciation like few others  
have.  My 778XXX DS M3 isn't particularly 'collectable', but it is  
eminently useful for what I do with it.  A gull wing Benz in good  
shape is worth a lot of coin, but is it still a daily driver?

I am certain that there remains a role for cameras of all types, from  
large format to digital, and it is a matter of choice.

Final question: Is anyone forking over the bucks to CLA/overhaul an  
early generation digital to keep it useable?

Charlie

On Jan 13, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Lottermoser George wrote:

> And - I, for one, am really grateful to those morons, bauble  
> buyers, collectors, and other non-users doing their part in keeping  
> the Leica glass and other goodies coming for us dozen users. ;~)
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george@imagist.com
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2007, at 10:18 AM, Ted Grant wrote:
>
>> I suppose there's some morons out there who do that, good on them  
>> having that kind of income for toys and fancy bits of baubles.
>
>
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Charlie Meyer
West Virginia Coordinator
Basset Rescue of Old Dominion, Inc. (BROOD)
Droolassic Park
Keyser, WV

Basset Hound Rescue: Work With Women. Pick Up Dogs.



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