Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 27, 2010, at 1:59 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> That they look at name only regardless of actual quality. (has more money >> than brains, lol) Doing so won't hurt your image quality, Leica lenses are >> all top-level, but it will cost you a lot more if there is a cheaper >> alternative that is just as good or nearly so. If you can afford it, >> you're >> safe buying only Leica. If not, you have choices of the CV stuff or the >> Zeiss stuff. Some of it is very good. >> >> >> -- >> Chris Crawford >> Fine Art Photography >> Fort Wayne, Indiana >> 260-424-0897 > > > Chris it doesn't look to me like you are looking very hard at what makes a > lens be a lens at one price point, and what makes a lens be at another. > The least of it is would seem to me to be lens design. > Its choice of materials. Glass types. > Amount made and by which method made. > Tolerances and care in which they are made which means: > quality control (QC?) > And a one thousand dollar lens is many price points apart from a 3 > thousand. > You think its going to be minor differences I'd call that very wishful > thinking. A huge blurring of basic logic and common sense > The "You get what you pay for" rule actually does also apply to lenes which > go on cameras. If there is an exception to that rule I'm afraid camera > lenes > do not happen to be it. > > When I shot nikon in the 80's and 90's and I got a job and If needed > something wide I blew a few hundred bucks on a lens and the job would pay > for it. > When I went Leica I shot with a 50 for a year and saved a whole year till I > could afford a 90. Basically it took me a year to get any lens for my > Leica > M system. Ten years got me ten lenes. > Worth it. Worth the wait. > But now on the lug we get our bodies and we want to buy and sell lenes on a > whim like we did with cheaper systems. > And we do becaue we can. Third party glass made to an entirely different > price point. I say have fun with it. But don't fool yourself into thinking > its the same as a Leica or even close. > > A camera is a life support system for its lens line. > Leicas are used by people who would be rather be using SLR's and DSLR s. > But use Leica becaue it is simply by far the best 35mm glass made. > Despite the crazy rangefinder. > Spend big money on a camrea body and put cheap glass in front of it I'd > call > that foolish. > Put your money in glass. If you have any left over. Get a camera. > It'll keep your film dark. Its that simple. Mark, I finally have to ask.... with all of your expertise, taste, experience, strong opinions, and great lenses... why are you using cheap Nikon glass on a cheap cropped Nikon body? Steve > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information