Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree wholeheartedly. I do not condemn the M6TTL; I merely choose to pass it over in favour of a future model with more substantive upgrades. I kept my M4 and M4-2 and passed over the M4-P for similar reasons (never wanted a 75mm; always used the periphery of the finder to frame for the 28mm) and was rewarded (albeit 4 years later) with the M6. BTW, Eric, I got to handle an R7 and R8 and several lenses, including the 100 APO-Macro, the other day, and the feel of them is absolutely fabulous. I can see why you'd prefer them. They are every bit worth the difference in price in terms of craftsmanship. At this point, since I use 35mm SLR primarily for wildlife and sporting events, I will stay with the F5 and AF-S lenses because that technology helps me immensely to make the images I want; but if and when Leica are into similar (or perhaps better) technology I will be taking a *serious* look at moving over. Regards, Nigel On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 07:22:00 -0500 Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> writes: >>And modern digital circuits take less space than analog circuits. So >>what is that extra 2mm all about? ;-) > >The future? Something has occurred to me, maybe I'm a bit slow or >something, but heck. All this abuse of the M6TTL is getting could be >more >disappointment than anything else. All the frenzy for several months >before >the M6TTL was introduced was filled with speculations about the new M >camera coming, with all these great new whiz-bang features. And then >look >what we get. Leica made no promises. But a lot of folks seem to be >reacting >like a blind date gone bad. > >I too was a bit disappointed, but not to the point of proclaiming >Leica >incompetent, about to go under or taken over by Ricoh or somebody >(joking >folks!). >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >Where reason has failed, fallibility may yet succeed. -- George Soros > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]