Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:37 AM 13-02-98 +0100, you wrote: >In a way I think your are correct, Dan. But although there is a Leica Mythos >or legend, there will always be a demand for manual cameras, you may compare >with Nikon, who keep on producing the 'obsolete' FM2. [snip] Yes, this is true. But let's pretend that you are in the market for a manual camera. You are looking at the Nikon FM2, and then you notice some upstart company selling this rangefinder camera you have never heard of, that only takes a handfull of terribly expensive lenses, that has an apparently primitive shutter (there is no 45 year or whatever track record of Leica's shutter!) compared to the Nikon, a weird way to load film into it (you do it through the bottom of the camera?), and offers very few accessories. Yet the camera costs 6 times as much. Would you even give a fraction of a second's thought to it? Dan C.