Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Walter S Delesandri wrote: > > I find it amusing that the photographic community insists on > referring to the FM, FM2, etc. as "professional" equipment... snip > You Leica types will understand, even the "feel" of the FM-2etc > didn't inspire confidence....Nikon announced the FM as a nikkormat > replacement during the production of the F2....only after the > demise of the F2 was it billed as a "pro mechanical body" -- > which it CLEARLY wasn't/isn't...... > snip Thought the FM was Nikons answer to the revolutionary OM-1 which significaly lightened the load on the foundations of camera stores and photographers necks everywhere. The SLR world had not been the same since untill the Nikons F4/5 and Leica R8. But the R8 is not as heavy as it is big. It's time to scale down agian. Mark Rabiner