Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "standard camera"
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:57:23 -0600

>In working a Victorian festival, with my R8s ( 35 f2 & 80 f1.4 );
>a  newspaper pro ( with Nikons ) saw my gear and asked to
>look through my Leicas. His quote:  "My God, what a brilliant
>& uncluttered view. What an aid to composition".

Tom,

That was one thing that won me over to the R8. What a viewfinder! And other
photojournalists I've talked to that have handled it say the same thing. 
- -- 

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot