Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> > If you are a Nikon shooter who wants to get into rangefinders, a Leica R > system is NOT what you are looking for. All you will be doing is trading one > reflex for another. Yes, you will get Leica glass. But that's only a small > part of what makes an M an M. Far more important is the fact that it is a > rangefinder camera, a compact, quiet, unobtrusive little box with which you > view the world through a picture window with frame lines. Using it is > philosophically/artistically, different from using an SLR. There are lots of > ways to get into rangefinders without buying an M - a screw mount Leica, a > screwmount Canon, a Russian copy, etc. You'd be better off with any of these > than with an R, if what you want is the rangefinder world. thanks. I think you're right. I already entered (sort of) in the world of rangefinders (with non-interchangeble lenses). I have 5 Yashicas and 4 Canons. I love the Canonet GIII QL17, I carry it always with me, and the lens does allow me to take some very good looking pictures. maybe I'll buy a Russian copy... where you referring to a Canon with M mount? does that exist? or is it screw mount? best regards, Fernando Martins Systems Administrator fer@caleida.pt http://fernando.somewhere.net/