Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 15mm M6 or 15mm R8 which one?
From: John Brownlow <deadman@jukebox.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 06:42:36 +0000
 
on 25/2/00 6:11 am, Ted Grant at tedgrant@home.com wrote:

> First in with, "Why I chose the M6 with 15mm over the R8 with 15mm for
> the visual heart pitty pats wins! This isn't the end result on film, but
> the motivation for shooting the picture one camera over the other.

My first thought was just that you can shoot slow speeds much easier with
the M, which is an issue with somewhat slow lenses like these, even when
they're wide as the 15mm. So you can do available light with the M better
than the R. 

I bet that's not it, though.
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