Re: [Leica] Someone mentioned Minox

["Simon Lamb" <s_lamb@compuserve.com>]

Roger

Thanks very much for your reply.  I have found a local dealer who has a
Minox so I will be getting my GT-E on Monday.

Simon

- ----- Original Message -----
From: <Robinsnes@aol.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: 20 May 2000 00:08
Subject: Re: [Leica] Someone mentioned Minox


>
> The quality is superb. I have 16x20's taken with the Minox GT-E and its
> predecessors. I have owned five over the last 20 years. You really want
the
> GT-E unless you like the camera to make decisions or are not completely
> familiar with wanting to control the camera yourself. The other model has
an
> amateur setting and it also has auto Dx settings, which remove the ability
to
> use the ASA dial to control the camera as completely. The quality will not
> show itself on any monitor. Please accept that it is excellent. How would
a
> monitor indicate to you the quality of a lens anyway? That makes no sense.
> As far as I know, the camera is imported by Leitz, but it is made by
Minox.
> They have made quality optics since at least the late 1930s. It is truly a
> photographer's camera...exposes chromes as well as prints with excellent
> fidelity. Buy one, you'll like it. It is also relatively inexpensive in
this
> day of microchip wonders.
>
> Roger Skully
> robinsnestphotography.com