Re: [Leica] Re: mainstream thinking

[Stephen <cameras@jetlink.net>]

Believe it or not I like the M6, it's my first choice as a convenient M shooter ....

yet metering convenience is one subject, construction quality another.

Stephen



Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Stephen wrote:
> >
> > > At 07:47 PM 11/12/99 +0100, Erwin Puts wrote:
> > > >
> > > ><snip>
> > > >
> > > >Leica has trouble  to deliver. True. Lost its innovative edge? Wait and see!
> > > >
> > > >Erwin
> >
> > By my count Leica has not introduced an innovative camera bodies since the M3,
> > M5, and CL.
> >
> > The R line has always been 5 to 10 years or more behind the times,  the M
> > modifications of what has gone before.
> >
> > If Leica has not lost the innovative edge in cameras, I wonder where they are
> > keeping it.
> >
> > Optics are the exception, where new designs continue to excel.
> >
> > Stephen Gandy
>
> When the M6 came out was it an innovation? Probably not. They took the self
> timer out of the M4 and replaced it with a meter after the M5 proved the wrong
> size to go over. You could call it a desperate move or you could call it a
> brilliant move. I'd say more the latter because the result was for me and many a
> perfect camera.
> You are in the old camera biz Stephen. And you undoubtedly prefer them. I can't
> afford to get into them just yet as much as I love them I need to shoot. I'm
> getting a second M6 body this Month possibly a TTL I don't care much.
> As far as wives cameras go (a popular thread here on the lug) after much looking
> at the possibilities my wife has decided on a Leica M6. So I will be getting 2
> M6's this month. Down the line I'll get older bodies as they are beautiful and
> functional in their own ways. And it is even possible that after using them I
> will find them a better shooting instrument for me then the modern M6. Maybe
> I'll learn to be less meter dependent. If so I'll make sure to apologize to you
> personally for criticizing your continual denigration of the M6.
> Sincerely,
> Mark Rabiner