Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]George, I didn't mean that the M-P itself is a "very silly" camera, I meant the concept, the gimmick whatever you wish to call it. When you compare a job like this with some LUGgers cameras and the stories both cameras and LUGgers can tell, there is simply no contest. And, Yes I'd like a cheaper M too ;-) Peter On 24/02/2015 21:16, George Lottermoser wrote: > An M-P certainly is not a "very silly" camera. > > The "pre-brassing" isn't silly UNLESS no one buys the things. > If they all sell? to whom ever? for what ever reason and/or price? > well than it all becomes quite "un-silly." > > I'd choose to spend money in a different manner? > though I can't afford to collect stuff? > except when fellow artists and crafts folk agree to barter? > > My metal working, wood working, and ceramicist friends and clients do work > very hard on their hand rubbed, sometimes "distressed" surfaces, patinas, > glazes and finishes. And they charge according to those hard won "looks." > > To each their own. > > I'd like a cheaper M? just unfinished brass? no paint? no rubbing off the > paint? just give me the cheaper price for not having to "finish" the damn > thing at all. My work with the tool will supply the "finish." > > ;~) > > a note off the iPad, George > > On Feb 24, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> > wrote: > >> So, it's a faked-up modern Leica that uses electronics rather than film. >> They >> could at least have produced lenses with old-style numbering etc...oh >> well! >> >> No, it's not the end of the world as we know it, Kyle. It's just a very >> silly >> camera by a company that often seems to try too hard...and this is an >> example. >> >> Peter >> >> PS I like Kravitz though, glad to know he uses Leicas too. >> >>> On 24/02/2015 16:06, kyle cassidy on the lug wrote: >>> Even though it?s just out of the box "it appears as if it had been in >>> constant use for decades and would have countless stories to tell." >>> >>> >>> I?m not sure which is a bigger blight on humanity, this, or the great >>> Pacific garbage gyre killing all sea life between California and Japan. >>> >>> Everybody, join me in a chorus of ?It?s the end of the world as we know >>> it?. >>> >>> >>> http://en.leica-camera.com/Photography/Leica-M/LEICA-M-P-CORRESPONDENT >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> -- >> >> =========================================================== >> Dr Peter Dzwig >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > -- =========================================================== Dr Peter Dzwig