Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My reasons: 1. It's quiet. 2. It's manual. 2. It's rugged. 3. It fits nicely into the hand. 4. Perhaps some day I'll be able to afford a Noctilux. The camera kit which preceded my present one (a Leica M6 and a Minox LX) was: a Pentax LX and an Olympus XA. The LX was lovely but I was forever getting myself into close situations where I'd have to lock up the mirror to get quiet enough to shoot (and its "chip" failed twice -- an expensive bummer). The XA was lovely, too, but not really very sturdy. I had tried, briefly, to use an Olympus Stylus, but turning off the flash in low light is very difficult to do (and it reverts to flash after each exposure) and it is remarkably noisy for such a compact device. It is nice that Leica lenses are so very sharp, but in view of the way I take pictures that is a bonus, rather than a desideratum.