On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 11:13:55AM -0700, Juan Buhler wrote: > On 4/14/07, Jens Bladt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is no easy way around this - the Leica M8 IS a lovely camera.? > > But it's not for the same work as a Pentax DSLR. Can you imagine shooting > > soccer game (with a 170-500mm zoom) with a M8? > > Sure. You can say a similar thing about doing street photography with > a DSLR with a mirror slap and a diaphragm that closes every time you > take a picture, completely giving you away. Some people make that > work. I'm sure a talented photographer would make great soccer > pictures with a Leica and a short fixed lens. > > [...] > > its' a life style, a status > > symbol. Take the M8 for a ride in your Porche, and bring it to the theatre, > > the opera, the exhibition etc. - whereever you go to enjoy life. People buy > > an M8 for the same resons you buy a Porche, Ferrari or BMW. > > Dude that's presumptuous. I drive a late 90's Honda, worth about half > what that M8 would cost. I don't care to get a new car. I do care to > have a camera that works the way I work in the street. IOW, the > features I need from a car I can get from a cheap Honda. The ones I'd > like in a camera it seems I can only get from Leica, or from the Epson > RD-1, except for its drawbacks.
I'd agree, but argue from the other side. I bought a (used) BMW, because represented the best bang for the buck in what I wanted from a car. There is at least one Porsche owner on the list, too. To suggest that we chose to buy those cars because of what others thought, rather than because of the way the cars performed, is an argument based on ignorance. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
