Given that the majority of snaps by Joe Average are taken with lenses ranging from 21mm to 135mm; Which should he choose, Leica or Nikon/Canon.
Then, given that he wants a relatively simple trip through the computing jungle, why would he not choose a Mac over a PC?
Huw, I know you like a punch up so pop off now for a brew and a packet of half coated.
Nick, Take another of your special tablets
Tim, have your defences ready
Mark, put your shotgun down, I'm well out of range
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He should use whatever the Jessops salesman suggests with a Vista PC. Obviously!
Would you REALLY wish that on anybody?He should use whatever the Jessops salesman suggests with a Vista PC. Obviously!
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Better than buying a Canon of your own choosing, surely.
Think I'd better hide out in the Pentax area for the next few days. If Nick doesn't ban me, of course.
You have a decent point thereBetter than buying a Canon of your own choosing, surely.
As regards hiding out in the Pentax room, they are pretty rough in there you know
And, given Nick's collection, he is pretty much 'on the committee' in all the makers rooms.
Very difficult to hide
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A combination of Apple and Leitz is sufficient to repel all boarders, Peter!
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If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink
Yeah, the idea of a Mac certainly remains utterly repulsive.A combination of Apple and Leitz is sufficient to repel all boarders, Peter!
Well the normal answer would be that they're both ridiculously overpriced for what they are, and bought only by poseurs who value style over function. Of course we all know that's not true about Leica, but put them both together and it's so overwhelmingly true on average that you've got a problem.Given that the majority of snaps by Joe Average are taken with lenses ranging from 21mm to 135mm; Which should he choose, Leica or Nikon/Canon.
Then, given that he wants a relatively simple trip through the computing jungle, why would he not choose a Mac over a PC?
Huw, I know you like a punch up so pop off now for a brew and a packet of half coated.
Nick, Take another of your special tablets
Tim, have your defences ready
Mark, put your shotgun down, I'm well out of range
Agreed!He should use whatever the Jessops salesman suggests with a Vista PC. Obviously!
On that basis stuff expensive lenses and buy a camera with the most megapixie thingys you can afford.
I like Apple but only when it's turned into pure cider I'm afraid.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.I like Apple but only when it's turned into pure cider I'm afraid.
I presumed that it was quiet in there because all Leica users had either carked it or it was lock down in the care home.
"Wrong on so many different levels."
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Okay - I'll give you three options. None of them involves a computer of any description - and you can't get much simpler than that. Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs, and Mr. 'Adobe', please take note!
1. Contax G2 - better lenses than most of the Leica ones. And they only cost about thruppence-ha'penny, rather than £2000 a pop. (Well, you wanted a punch-up, didn't you?
2. Nikon F2 (or FM3A/FM2n, if you prefer something a little more compact).
3. Mamiya 6, if you want more square inches of frame. (or 7, if you can't get a 6, or want a few more lens options, and possibly more ultimate optical quality).
- All of the above coupled with the technological simplicity of a wet darkroom, to avoid that glorified Babbage's Difference Engine nonsense.
There you go - stick that in your SBLOO and smoke it!
When you say give, how literally would you mean that? I'm feeling quite receptive, I have to say. I still reckon a FM3a/FM2n is my 'perfect' camera.Okay - I'll give you three options.
I really didn't like my FM2. I've seldom had a camera that felt so wrong, when the package should've been just right. And to talk about one in a Leica room is a travesty - it's a Lubitel to a Leica's Rolleiflex. My general experience of Nikons is that they're Sid James instead of Leslie Phillips - crude instead of smooth - and that goes double for the FM2.
And Canons would be Bernard ManningMy general experience of Nikons is that they're Sid James instead of Leslie Phillips - crude instead of smooth - and that goes double for the FM2.
"Wrong on so many different levels."
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Not very literally at all.how literally would you mean that?
Yes, very true - nobody with any sense would laugh at either.And Canons would be Bernard ManningMy general experience of Nikons is that they're Sid James instead of Leslie Phillips - crude instead of smooth - and that goes double for the FM2.
No, we laugh at them, not with them.Yes, very true - nobody with any sense would laugh at either.And Canons would be Bernard ManningMy general experience of Nikons is that they're Sid James instead of Leslie Phillips - crude instead of smooth - and that goes double for the FM2.
"Wrong on so many different levels."
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Then, as has long been obvious, you've got no sense.No, we laugh at them, not with them.Yes, very true - nobody with any sense would laugh at either.My general experience of Nikons is that they're Sid James instead of Leslie Phillips - crude instead of smooth - and that goes double for the FM2.
And Canons would be Bernard Manning
Trouble is Huw, in this benighted age, I think you are more than likely correct!Okay - I'll give you three options. None of them involves a computer of any description - and you can't get much simpler than that. Mr. Gates, Mr. Jobs, and Mr. 'Adobe', please take note!
1. Contax G2 - better lenses than most of the Leica ones. And they only cost about thruppence-ha'penny, rather than £2000 a pop. (Well, you wanted a punch-up, didn't you?
2. Nikon F2 (or FM3A/FM2n, if you prefer something a little more compact).
3. Mamiya 6, if you want more square inches of frame. (or 7, if you can't get a 6, or want a few more lens options, and possibly more ultimate optical quality).
- All of the above coupled with the technological simplicity of a wet darkroom, to avoid that glorified Babbage's Difference Engine nonsense.
There you go - stick that in your SBLOO and smoke it!
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