Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22

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Subject: RE: [Leica] The M6 Fugue
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:20:55 -0000

Bob - You're wasting your breath: you're arguing with someone who purports
to believe that when given a group of photographs to look at, it is possible
to pick out the photographs taken with an all-mechanical, hand-assembled
camera, as compared to an electronic camera.

Want to buy a bridge? :-)

B. D.

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
Bmceowen@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 8:10 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] The M6 Fugue



>>You are missing the point. The worst thing that could happen would be
>to get
>>what you're dreaming about. If Solms bestowed an electronic M on you,
>it
>>would be bogus. Why? Because it would not be manual. It would lose the
>
>>tactile quality that makes the M the precision camera system it is. It
>would
>>be an assembled camera, not a hand finished camera. That loss would show
>in
>>the negatives and prints.



Does anyone believe they should have stopped the SLR design with the
Leicaflex SL2? How come it's OK for the SLR line to try to keep up with the
times but not the rangefinder line?

Bob (waiting for the "right" AE M-camera) McEowen