Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The R-8 is one of the best designs for holdability (new word) that I've ever had in my hands. Try it your sure to like it. Cheers Wilber - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Javier Perez" <summarex@yahoo.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 2:05 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] R equipment and its future > I don't have an R8 but I have tons > of old Exaktas. The sloping sides make them > impossible to hold securely with either hand > unless I wrap my pinky and vice-pinky fingers > around the rewind knob. > My question is very simply, how do you hold on to the camera > without the wedge slipping out of your hand? > See Ya > Javier > > > > Martin Howard wrote: > > > Nathan Wajsman jotted down the following: > > > > > The R8 is very much an acquired taste. Many people who just handle it in a > > > store do not fully appreciate what a wonderful camera it is in actual > > > shooting. If you have an opportunity to shoot a roll of film with it, I urge > > > you to do so. > > > > > > > I still think the R8 is the most ergonomic camera Leica has ever produced > > (with the possible exception of the M4/classic M6). And I still think that > > the one camera Leica should produce that they haven't is an R9 -- a fully > > mechanical camera with the innards of the R6.2, light and flash metering of > > the R8, in the R8 body shell. I'd sell a kidney to buy one. (Not telling > > whose though ;) > > > > M. > > > > -- > > Martin Howard | > > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | Shit happens. > > email: howard.390@osu.edu | > > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------- > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. > http://im.yahoo.com >