Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Terry Sham wrote: > > Many people are using M. Many people want to buy M. Many books and magazines > talk about M. Unfortunately, I want to buy a R. Why M is more pupular than > R? Am I right to buy a R? > > Thanks! > > Terry Sham Might makes right! The optical quality of Leica M glass it in a class by itself. There is stuff you can do in glass design on a rangefinder you can't do on an SLR. Particularly in the wide angle lenses As a rangefinder camera is it quiet: no mirror black out no mirror vibrion. No waiting for the mirror come up before the shutter can start moving. No pentaprism on top of the camera and you can see around the frame lines so you can easily frame as much for what you don't want as much as what you do want in the picture. It is not built for obsolescence but is an enduring, slowly evolving classic. Mark William Rabiner