Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chuck, After you buy your Yugo for transportation and your tent to live in, you should buy a K-1000 for your photography. That way you cannot complain about the high prices. You can move, sleep, and snap. What more could you want? Life is beautiful. Jim >Chuck at Ccl1396915541@aol.com wrote: >> >> After I slammed the R bodies I thought before I went off on my trip I'd >> propose what might be a nice way to support the Leitz lenses everybody is >> rooting for. Suppose Leica called up Nikon and said: Hey, you still have the >> tooling for the F4? Ok, we'll buy it. We'll rip out the autofocus motor >> (but leave in the in-focus lights) and hook up a Leica lensmount to the >> meter.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>>Ought to have room for the cams once the AF is gone. Then, Leica >> calls up Cosina and says: make us one of those cheap mechanical bodies like >> you do for Nikon and Olympus and Yashica and Ricoh. We want both a spot >> meter and centerweighted in ours like the Olympus has. We'll sell it for >> $400 'cause it says "Leica". <<<<<<<<<<<< > > That way folks can get started in the system or >> have a good cheap spare body. The R62 is a ripoff at the price they ask. >> You get the picture. Leica isn't ashamed to buy their zoom lenses from >> Japan, maybe they should just subcontract their bodies to a good company, get >> a really nice reliable modern design, and concentrate on making those super >> duper lenses instead of pissing everyone off with their self destructing >> bodies. >> >> Chuck