[rollei_list] Re: "Rollei 35mms beat both Alpas AND Leicas in the coolness department" (was: "Alpas beat Leicas hands down" (was: OT / prove it !))
- From: Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 01:08:18 -0500
Uh ... further to the post quoted below, I just came across the=20
ABSOLUTE COOLEST 35 mm system I ever saw at =20
<http://www.cameraquest.com/rol3003.htm>=A0- and the best thing is, it's=20=
a ROLLEI! (It can even shoot digital.)
Now THIS is certainly something about which one may say, "Cheers"!
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On Friday, April 1, 2005, at 01:49 AM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:
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> On Thursday, March 31, 2005, at 11:38 AM, Douglas Shea wrote:
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>> I would like to interject Alpas into this "my camera can beat up your=20=
>> camera" argument -- along with the superb array of lenses they=20
>> offered.
>>
>> Doug
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> Indeed. Alpas beat Leicas hands down in the "coolness" department.=20
> Given a choice - and if I had the money, of course - I would pick an=20=
> Alpa (like an 8b, a 9d, silver, or best of all a 10d without crest,=20
> again silver, as shown at=20
> http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa10d.html) over ANY Leica. (Only=20
> 245 Alpa 8 cameras were made all in all!)
>
> The 11si (silver) is no slouch in the "coolness" department either. In=20=
> some ways it's the most attractive, aesthetically, of all. See=20
> http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history/alpa11si.html.
>
> And of course the 12 WA (http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/alpa12wa.htm) is a=20
> medium format photographer's dream. "... the ALPA is a camera for the=20=
> photographer who has completely mastered his or her craft [...] There=20=
> is an immense satisfaction in this..." - so says the British Journal=20=
> of Photography, London, regarding the ALPA 12. "Reduced to the=20
> essentials - the true luxury of the 21st century. Restraint in design.=20=
> Discipline in photographic work." - as Alpa's web site most correctly=20=
> puts it.
>
> Cheers.
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