The mistake that we are all making is that we are discussing this based on logical and rational reasons. Very few people buy a Leica for logical and rational reasons. Saying that you shouldn’t buy a Leica MM because you lose flexibility in the B&W conversion is like saying that you shouldn’t buy a Suzuki Hayabusa because you can only carry one passenger.
Bob, if buying that camera is what stirs your soul, and it makes you happy, do it. If it will improve the purity of the experience for you to epoxy a Snobilux elit 23/1.2 R, or a lens baby to it, so that you are committed to only thinking in black and white in one focal length, then do that as well. It’s not the camera I would buy (unless I had the bank account of the Larry from Redwood Shores, but the bank account of the Larry from Felton can’t even justify a K3 this week), but it’s not my money, and I’m not the one that will be using it. I wonder, however, what the used market for them is like. I suspect that a lot of people buy them for purely emotional reasons, and then realize that the vast majority of the time they actually get better pictures out of the color version. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
