Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The manual that should come with a new camera is fine. If you want some more info on lenses and accessories (specs, pics), get a free brochure from your dealer. If you want more info on lens performance, visit Erwin's site. For an alternative viewpoint, focussing less on optitical performance, I like www.cameraquest.com. Many "camera books" are not more than a blown-up manual, blended with info from brochures, general photo trivia and, sometimes, Leica history. Stay away from writers who have published to many books, on too many camera models and brands, and too short after the respective models came out. I have accumulated a couple of Leica equipment books. Now I own Leica cameras and lenses and don't need to look at pictures of them any more. I still buy photo books, but with pictures and not pictures of equipment. By the way, I bought a fat Magnum book on saturday, "magnum°" which apparantly is celebrating the agency's 50th anniversery: 25x25cm, 500+ pages, many great and new pictures from the last ten years. Hans-Peter Hans-Peter