[rollei_list] Re: <for sale> 11/20/09 (including pictures)
- From: Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:51:12 -0500
Interesting: because of this discussion I just checked ebay to see what kind of
prices were current and ebay has gone down hard
All the best Larry Cuffe
On Saturday, November 21, 2009, at 04:34PM, "Thor Legvold" <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
>Hi Mark,
>
>Excellent point. Obviously what it is you want to accomplish weighs
>heavily on the choise of equipment.
>
>I shoot mostly portraits, city/landscapes and tourist photos (I travel
>a lot, or used to).
>
>You won't find my name on Google, I'm not a working professional
>photographer. I've worked as one years ago, on a free lance basis for
>customers in Norway, as well as for an opposition newspaper in the
>former Yugoslavia that no longer exists. Photography has always been a
>hobby for me, and I've had a tendency in all of my hobbies to pursue
>them to professional levels.
>
>These days I use a 6008 and tripod when I go out with the intent to
>create images. When I travel I almost always bring along the 2.8D I
>bought a few years ago, and I like (and use) it more and more as time
>goes on. It's a great little camera. Light, small, unobtrusive, and
>with wonderfully big negs :-). For walking to work or around town or
>just to take snaps of family and friends I use a Contax IIa, sometimes
>the Bessa, sometimes a Nikon FM3a. It depends what plans we have and
>what I know about the day ahead of me. I try to plan accordingly.
>
>The blurry Contax shots I haven't published, haven't posted. Haven't
>even bothered scanning all of them. I can't imagine what a Leica could
>do for my work either, but am curious what it could do for my
>photography.
>
>I'm not Leica bashing, but rather incredulous after reading a little
>and checking it out more, and seeing the prices - which I can
>understand in one way, and the Leicaphiles going on about their magic
>cameras - which is harder for me to understand. As a sometime
>musician, hearing about people colecting Leicas (and never using them)
>is like hearing about great old vintage Fenders bought up and put
>behind glass. It's a shame, and it puts great instruments out of reach
>of people who might have created art with them.
>
>I prefer your picture (guy with holes in pants and brassy Leica) to
>the one I find quite a few places on the net and in reality (like the
>retired doctor in NY a few weeks back), but am not sure which one is
>accurate or most common. Perhaps both.
>
>Akhils explination makes perfect sense, so there's no problem there.
>
>Anyway, thanks for the talk.
>
>Thor
>
>p.s. If you're getting $10k to shoot a wedding, well, wow... But from
>what I've heard and read, US weddings (expense wise) have grown out of
>all bounds the last 10-20 years.
>
>
>On 21. nov.. 2009, at 21.50, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>>
>> Its "specific areas" which I noticed was missing from the picture.
>> Rollei vs. Leica to shoot what?
>> City scapes?
>> Street photography?
>> Portraits on the sidewalk?
>> Landscapes?
>> Tourist pictures?
>> A discussion of tools with no mention for the jobs they are intended
>> to be
>> used for gets me nowhere.
>> To be able to see some of a persons work is also a big help when
>> they are
>> talking about this or that camera they'd get use out of. A URL. I
>> google
>> imaged Thor was not able to find anything. No blurry Contax shots.
>> Nothing.
>> So I cant image what a Leica could to for his work.
>> Also the price point and Leica glass varies tremendously on how old
>> and used
>> it is. They go back to the 1930's. You can pick your price point.
>> I don't picture a millionaire using a Leica on the street I picture
>> a guy
>> with holes in his pants using brassy gear who bought it used a long
>> time ago
>> and it not likely to sell it any time soon if ever.
>>
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>>
>>
>>
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