Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/22
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From: "Don Bledsoe" <dbledsoe@micron.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Subject: Re: Re:Leica M: object of desire?-The future !!
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 14:13:07 -0700
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Don Bledsoe wrote:
<You have essentially described one more in an already too long list of
<battery dependent cameras. What you are asking for is a manual focus (M
<bayonet mount) Contax G2. Why? I would never ever want my M camera to be
<like my G camera. If Leica ever decides to make something as horrible as
<you described I only hope and pray they continue making the M6 for the rest
<of us. I do not want motors. In the viewfinder I want... well I want the
<view. I do not want numbers, characters, flashing lights, buzzers,
<needles, or lightening bolts. The M6 has all the flash in the finder I
<care to tolerate.
Don,
I want both and I think that there is a market for both, specially because of
all those lenses already on the market.(Like there is a market for both the R8 &
R6.2)
But of course,if I have to make a choice, I prefer to stay with my M6.
But Don, I am sure that in the near future, Leica will make a M7 and I think
that you will prefer a M7 fully electronic and the M6 together on sale, instead
of only a M7 mixing M6 caracteristics plus some of those of the G2.
Regards,
Lucien