For all these thick Leica propaganda quotes you gave us I can only "retaliate" with the following website written by someone who pokes great fun at the "Leica mystique" yet at the same time knows how to use it for what it was intended: GEN X Leica Slacker http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/cassidy/leicaslacker/ Oh Yeh! Kyle...great sense of humor and great photograper..almost a daily contributor to the LUG...