[LRflex] Re: leicareflex Digest V8 #140
- From: Tina Manley <images@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 16:47:10 -0400
The lenses haven't changed. I still have them and am using them with the R9
and DMR back. It's not a perfect solution, but it's so much better than the
Canon DSLRs that I tried until Leica came out with the digital M and DMR. I
plan to continue using the R9 and DMR and my wonderful Leica R lenses.
Every time I compare my Canon files with my Leica ones, I realize why I'm
still using Leica lenses.
Tina
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Greg Bicket <gregbicket@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Leica R users,
>
> First let me thank you for the learning and the fine images that populate
> this forum. Real talent here.
>
> I take my leave. Leica's decision to turn its back on R users makes me
> angry, sad, and disappointed. Leica's nearly endless touting of their
> legacy of long term support to their customers and their respect for
> backwards compatibility for a long time comforted me that my camera, and
> especially my lenses would be useful and relevant for decades. For the
> years after the DMR, I waited hopefully, and faithfully for Leica's
> commitment to digital R photography. From Photokina to Photokina, I hung
> on positive comments and predictions about the R solution with the faith
> that it must be a tremendous new digital SLR they were building. Then came
> S and my hopes grew for trickle down improvements to make their way into
> what I hoped would be R10.
>
> Purchasing decisions for my are careful and deliberate, as they were when I
> bailed out of my old favorite N-F3HP [I wear glasses] and the collection of
> Nikon glass I had acquired. Obviously, I am willing to pay for the best.
> And the decision was rewarded by a great, ergonomic body [R8] and a
> wonderful collection of lenses.
> 19/24/50/80/100APO/280/APO/35-70/80-200/400/560. And what great photos
> they made! When comments from Leica became more and more vague, I fiddled
> with various Rube Goldberg concoctions in order to enjoy my wonderful Leica
> glass on one digital platform after another. And what a pain in the ass
> these solution are, at least for me. Even when using them wide open,
> making images was fiddly-gibbert and I find it to completely interrupt the
> creative flow.
>
> Not unlike the LUG days, people here share great images and learning about
> making images. And some of you I remember from my years on the LUG. With
> the last Photokina, and the firm announcements about R having no future at
> Leica, I find that for me, the joy has left making photographs with Leica
> lenses. I replaced them in their plastic wrappers, slid most of them into
> their leather cases, put them back in their white boxes with their red
> logos, and sold the lot of them, along with the various bits and parts and
> flash units, etc, that went with them.
>
> Odd as it sounds I realized the faith I put in Leica, and their business
> decisions about the R line have left me disappointed, and a bit bitter.
> Leitax, my ass. Using my Leica glass on these contrived platforms was
> making me feel duped and foolish. And I came to realize that it was
> reflected in the photography it produced. I look forward to joy returning
> to the digital photographs I will be making with someone else's equipment.
>
> I wish each and all much happiness using the best slr lenses ever made.
>
> Greg Bicket
>
>
>
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Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com
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