Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've said all that I'm going to say about this. I think most people understood what I was trying to say to Yama. On Jan 3, 2008 4:20 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > Yes this "price is an object" thing is very popular on the LUG in the past > years with the third party lens available for our camera bodies. > Before that the object was gathering the money up to pay for an optic we > knew would not be cheap. > Now the price point we throw up just happens to be the price of a Cosina > Voigtl?nder or other such glass and that's supposed to be written on the > stones brought down by Charlton Heston but our price is what we want it to > be - what we set it at. > > In the old days if we had to have a lower price point for our Leica bodies > we got Leica glass from former generations. If we were outfitting out LTM > bodies we got Canon, Nikon or Russian gems of lightly coated glass. > Now we get brand new pie in the sky Zeiss bulk made in Japan and think its > a > perfect antidote to the ever high price of a new Leica lens. > As I was just telling Doug Herr if I wanted a fake I'd get a real fake' > not > a fake fake. > > I think its a Fig Newton of our own imaginations. > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > To me the money needs to go on the glass. > Get a Bessa L for 60 bucks. > Then put a real Zeiss or Leica wide angle on it! > For the 2 - 3 grand it cost. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, LA