Re: [Leica] M7 wish lists

[Steve Hickel <smhickel@x2.alliance.net>]

Dan,

In my humble opininion the FM2 feels like a toy compared to the M6. In
large part though you are correct in that the aura of great photographers
having used the camera to create some of modern history's most memorable
photographs bodes well for the Leica camera. 

Now the F3HP feels like a tool.

Steve

At 10:45 PM 2/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
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