Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People also buy things for their absence of features. > -----Original Message----- > From: lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org > [mailto:lug-bounces+leica=web-options.com@leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of Mark Rabiner > Sent: 14 December 2008 22:34 > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] FYI: Black paintM9 > > People do buy Leica for the specs. > Its just not the specs other people like. > Leica specs traditionally would be a cloth shutter. > That's why we are buying the camera. > Others want a quitted titanium shutter; > So they buy Nikons or canons. > Others want micromoters and Program mode > Leica buyers want rangefinder focusing and viewing. > > If you compare "features" between an M7 and a Nikon f5 the > Nikon has 2000 > features and the Leica has 20. > So we're not buying them for total features. > We're buying them for the specs. The specs we like. > A major reason will always be because you can put Leica lenes on them. > > > > mark@rabinergroup.com > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Luis Miguel Casta?eda Navas <octabod@gmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:38:28 +0100 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] FYI: Black paintM9 > > > > > > On 13/12/2008, at 19:50, mehrdad wrote: > > > >> it will cost 10k and it is already obsolete before shipping. > > > > well, except the M3 at their time, all M were obsolete in terms of > > specifications before shipping. Compare an M7 with an F6 or > EOS-1, or > > even F4, go figure :) > > > > Seriously, collectors apart, I never knew anyone who paid the leica > > premium just for specs. > > > > > > > > I feel better, to hell with photography, art, women, and all > > E. Weston, 1924 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > > http://luis.imaginarymagnitude.net/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >