Uncle Mike wrote: ryankarr wrote:
Well I\'m done with this thread. It\'s just full of assholes now.
I\'m guessing the trolls (Uncle Mike and monkeycolonel) opinions spring more from jealously on disposable income amounts than anything else.
I\'m not \"trolling,\" I am genuinely impressed that Leica has creates this brand image that allows them to sell a camera for $5500 that, objectively, isn\'t any better than a camera that costs less than than $1000 (and one could even make a case that Olympus E-PM2 recently on sale for $299 is at the same level).
Also, it\'s not \"communist\" to look down upon people who waste money on stuff like that. I\'d also look down on women with a closet of shoes they spend five figures on. It\'s not why the Puritans settled the United States.
You clearly don\'t see the appeal in rangefinder photography. To me, the M-E is much better than every single digital camera currently on the market, because it is the only digital rangefinder currently available (outside of the even more expensive M 240 or MM.) The image sensor is only a part of the package of any camera. If someone else made a FF digital rangefinder, I\'d certainly consider it, assuming that it was relatively well made and enjoyable to use. Heck, if someone made a digital version of my Olympus SP, I\'d be interested. I was relatively frugal and forced myself to wait 3 years after the M9 was announced, simply so I could get a used one at a price that I could deal with. I tried to get on with several mirrorless cameras in the interim, and they just weren\'t as enjoyable to use, despite the good output.
To compare buying an M to buying women\'s shoes is ridiculous. I would probably agree if we were talking about the Hermes edition Leicas for a much larger cost, but not the plain old Ms. To sort of quote Manos, would anyone criticize a butcher for spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on refrigeration units and equipment? It\'s just the cost of doing business, and people buy what the like and can afford. I no longer shoot professionally, but photography is still my number one interest, and I don\'t see what the big deal is about spending this kind of money on the tools that I enjoy using. I\'d rather have an M camera than a jet ski, or 4 wheeler, or tons of guns, or whatever it is other people spend their money on in this country.
Uncle Mike wrote: ryankarr wrote:
Well I\'m done with this thread. It\'s just full of assholes now.
I\'m guessing the trolls (Uncle Mike and monkeycolonel) opinions spring more from jealously on disposable income amounts than anything else.
I\'m not \"trolling,\" I am genuinely impressed that Leica has creates this brand image that allows them to sell a camera for $5500 that, objectively, isn\'t any better than a camera that costs less than than $1000 (and one could even make a case that Olympus E-PM2 recently on sale for $299 is at the same level).
Also, it\'s not \"communist\" to look down upon people who waste money on stuff like that. I\'d also look down on women with a closet of shoes they spend five figures on. It\'s not why the Puritans settled the United States.
You clearly don\'t see the appeal in rangefinder photography. To me, the M-E is much better than every single digital camera currently on the market, because it is the only digital rangefinder currently available (outside of the even more expensive M 240 or MM.) The image sensor is only a part of the package of any camera. If someone else made a FF digital rangefinder, I\'d certainly consider it, assuming that it was relatively well made and enjoyable to use. Heck, if someone made a digital version of my Olympus SP, I\'d be interested. I was relatively frugal and forced myself to wait 3 years after the M9 was announced, simply so I could get a used one at a price that I could deal with. I tried to get on with several mirrorless cameras in the interim, and it just wasn\'t as enjoyable.
To compare buying an M to buying women\'s shoes is ridiculous. I would probably agree if we were talking about the Hermes edition Leicas for a much larger cost, but not the plain old Ms. To sort of quote Manos, would anyone criticize a butcher for spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars on refrigeration units and equipment? It\'s just the cost of doing business, and people buy what the like and can afford. I no longer shoot professionally, but photography is still my number one interest, and I don\'t see what the big deal is about spending this kind of money on the tools that I enjoy using. I\'d rather have an M camera than a jet ski, or 4 wheeler, or tons of guns, or whatever it is other people spend their money on in this country.
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