I am 20 percent jealous and 80 percent disgusted! Kind of like when I see a beautiful Ferrari on the road, but then actually think about the fact that someone spend more money than I'll make in 20 years on that car just to drive it in stop and go traffic on the 101, passing thousands of hungry homeless people on the way to wherever it is he/she is headed.
I am 20 percent jealous and 80 percent disgusted! Kind of like when I see a beautiful Ferrari on the road, but then actually think about the fact that someone spend more money than I'll make in 20 years on that car just to drive it in stop and go traffic on the 101, passing thousands of hungry homeless people on the way to wherever it is he/she is headed.
M7 a la carte Black Paint with .85 viewfinder, MP-style film advance, .85-4 framelines and no engraving. Took 5 weeks and 2 days.
I am 20 percent jealous ...
It was also a commentary on the stupid prices of new Leicas, and my disbelief that anyone buys them.
No need to get all crazy, folks.
You are all missing the content of what I said.
It was not a judgment of a person, as several have stated, nor was it an insult.
Nor was it an argument that buying useful tools is ridiculous if they are expensive. I bought a used D700 and grip for $2,200 because it was required for work to replace my 8-year-old digital, and I am in the same league as someone who gets a $5,000-plus custom-made 35mm film camera in 2011 and then presents it without even speaking of what he is going to do with it? Sure sounds like irony to me.....
No need to get all crazy, folks.
You only spent $2,200? There are some who might see that as a huge expenditure. You spent 4 times the money I did on my latest camera. There are plenty of people in the world who live on much less than that per year.
It is all a matter of perspective.... To me, $2,200 is a huge amount of money for a camera. To you it is not. The OP only paid a bit more than twice yours.
On one thing we both agree. No need to get all crazy...
I agree with you. $2,200 is a huge expenditure for me (despite the fact that you stated that it is not). It is the most I have ever spent on any camera by 2x. I hated spending that much on anything short of a house or a car, believe me. But it was a livelihood necessity, as I was losing my jobs from my usual employers by not having a "better" camera. I can count five gigs for sure (maybe more; I don't know) at $400 a pop, that I know I wasn't hired for by one boss, simply because my old camera had "only" 6 Mpix files...as if that was so much worse than my boss' 13 M pix or whatever with her 5D's. But, whatever. She isn't up to snuff technically, but she gets constant work, and hires me, and she is a really swell person, so I like working for her. And in a few months, the thing is paid for by the work I will stop missing out on by having it. And future lenses, even brand new AI-S ones, are several hundred each, not thousands. Therefore the camera actually saves me even more money by allowing me to buy cheaper lenses than I could get for my old one. The high ISO ability allows me to buy slower lenses than I relied on as well, saving thousands more in the end. So, it wasn't an extravagant luxury/hobby expenditure. It was a long-calculated and intelligent business investment. Can't you see the difference? And the only reason I brought it up was to squash the ridiculous comment that my first post was ironic considering my recent purchase.
Also, I would venture to guess that the pretty puppy was more than "a bit more than twice [mine.]" The M7 is five grand, stock, with no lens. Add customization and a lens, and you are probably talking close to 10 grand...for a film camera, A.K.A. an amateur hobby camera for most users in 2011. And then it is just plopped down on the forums for us all to be impressed by. Sorry, but if you cannot see the difference, I don't know what else to say.
I have already settled this with the OP. We're fine. Now it is just deflating silly comments from others who just don't get what I said. If you want to make them, let's just take it to PM so as to not derail this thread any longer.
It was a tongue-in-cheek way of saying, "It's a nice camera, but you'd better go out and take some damned good pictures with it so you are not like one of those aloof, disconnected, show-off mamones who drives in bumper to bumper traffic with a Ferrari."
Im located in NYC, and I always cringe a bit whenever there's a kid who whips out a Leica or just carries it daintily on their shoulder like an expensive purse, without ever picking it up to take a photo. If you go somewhere like Union Square, Leicas seem to outnumber all other rangefinders :O and everyone else who doesnt have one has a gigantor DSLR, and if its Canon it has to have an L or kit lens on it. I saw 1 other film user the other day with a plain olympus slr around the golden hour shooting. =[
,,,,,, And the only reason I brought it up was to squash the ridiculous comment that my first post was ironic considering my recent purchase.
You know, I don't like being called stupid by you in any forum. Don't come near me with your derogatory comments, and then laugh it off by saying it's the rest of us that are stupid because we don't understand what you really mean. That's the lamest shit I've read in a long time. You are officially on my ignore list.
Why be pissy?
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
(a poet of yore)
peace, brothers
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?