Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which to choose,etc- changed to "It's a JOKE, son, I say-a JOKE!"
From: "Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:55:19 -0400

Ed.-
ZUT ALORS! I tried looking at the front of my camera.... GASP!!-CRACKED THE
MIRROR ! <<G>>
Dan
- -Beauty may only be skin deep, but UGLY goes clear to the bone!


- ----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Which to choose, SL or SL2?


> I own a Leicaflex SL. One day about 10 years ago my friend,
> who worked at E.Leitz, Wetzlar in the 1960s, told me to
> turn it around and hold it with the lens facing me. I did
> this and the camera felt better in my hands. Then he said,
> "pick up an SL2 and hold it correctly." I did this and
> it felt very good. It felt as if I were holding the SL
> with the lens facing me. Seems as though Leitz learned
> a lesson with the SL and corrected it with the SL2.
> I still own the SL and do not have an SL2. I have an
> R4 instead. Ed
>
>