[rollei_list] Re: "Alpas beat Leicas hands down" (was: OT / prove it !)
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:49:23 -0500
On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Douglas Shea wrote:
> I would like to interject Alpas into this "my camera can beat up your
> camera" argument -- along with the superb array of lenses they > offered.
>
> Doug
Indeed. Alpas beat Leicas hands down in the "coolness" department.
Given a choice - and if I had the money, of course - I would pick an
Alpa (like an 8b, a 9d, silver, or best of all a 10d without crest,
again silver, as shown at
<http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa10d.html>) over ANY Leica. (Only
245 Alpa 8 cameras were made all in all!)
The 11si (silver) is no slouch in the "coolness" department either. In
some ways it's the most attractive, aesthetically, of all. See
<http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa11si.html>.
And of course the 12 WA (<http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/alpa12wa.htm>) is a
medium format photographer's dream. "... the ALPA is a camera for the
photographer who has completely mastered his or her craft [...] There
is an immense satisfaction in this..." - so says the British Journal of
Photography, London, regarding the ALPA 12. "Reduced to the essentials
- the true luxury of the 21st century. Restraint in design. Discipline
in photographic work." - as Alpa's web site most correctly puts it.
Cheers.
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