I will always remember what a Leica manager in Germany said to me, which went like this: “I have read your publication today, and I have to admit that the tone is from my point of view unreasonable. However, we respect that journalists can make up their mind independently. But I think even for your reputation within the worldwide video community this article might not be helpful.” What surprised me most was not that he disagreed with my Leica SL2 review. It was that he felt I had a “reputation” within the worldwide video community. How had this product manager at Leica come to such a revelation about me, a humble blogger and advocate of affordable filmmaking tools? At first I thought some of the spies in Berlin had tipped him off. Perhaps they had put a neatly written memo out about the British and what we were like. Could it have been my nemesis, the Cinema5D crew in Austria? In the end, I suspected none of that. Because to be disliked these days, it is apparently enough simply to tell the truth and be straight to the point about it. That’s because, like the former Soviet Union we are living in a post-truth society with most Western nations following Putin’s media playbook where fake news is big money, and facts merely an inconvenience that get in the way money changing hands. At the time of the Leica controversy, I was a Leica customer with the SL2, Leica Q...
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