> Thanks Bill but actually I wasn't trying to pick a fight, I am honestly just > curious. Some people on the Leica Users Group tried to "shame" me this way, > but it doesn't work with me--honestly I just don't feel that what users of > other makes of camera think about my camera matters one bit. It doesn't > matter to me, and I can't see why it should matter to them either. I mean, > sometimes I've shot with an EOS Rebel or a Canonet, or point-and-shoots. If > anything, I *like* cameras that don't look like much, because people take me > less seriously and I can be more surreptitious.
Evidently we have similar outlooks on this point. I don't hesitate to use my Yashica Samurai half frame for snapshots, the Lynx 14 if the mood strikes me, and, as you well know the Kiev 60, which I've pretty much dedicated to color film since I don't have a 6x6 carrier for my enlarger. > While it doesn't matter to me what I'm seen with, I know other people may > feel differently. I was just wondering why Bruce would say "a camera has to > be perceived as a flagship by owners of other brands have any credibility as > a flagship." It seems a very curious statement to me. These are the folks who are more concerned with the image they project than the images they take. Bill
