RE: [Leica] Fuji building an M

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Naive?  No just stating facts.  How many people would buy a Leica M and use
a Sigma lens?  None!
On the reverse, how many would buy a Konica M body and use Leica lenses?
Many!
Hence you can deduce that the lens is the favorite option in the Leica M
line, not the body.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Martin Howard [mailto:mvhoward@mac.com]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 11:56 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji building an M


Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote, in part:
>  Face it,
> the reason we use the M is not the camera, its the lenses which have
> transcended time with their wonderful resolution capabilities.
>

Nope, sorry Peter, but you're naïve inductivist method of investigation
doesn't work.  I use Leica M cameras for the camera as much as I do for the
lenses.  It's small, quiet, jewel-like, fast, direct, engaging, dependable.
It connects me to the photographic process and the things I shoot, rather
than distanceing me from them.  I value that.

However, that doesn't mean that it might not be interesting to *complement*
the existing line of M cameras, much in the way Cosina has *complemented*
the existing line of M lenses.  I agree that an M built by Fuji would be an
interesting proposition.

M.

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