Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]tlianza wrote: > > Hi, > > I recently bought a Leica winder for my M6. It was one of the units > designed for the M4-2. It works well enough, but it is so loud that it > defeats the purpose for having the M in the first place. I bought one of > Tom A's rapid winder and as soon as I get it, the power winder goes back on > to ebay. > > As far as the R8 goes, I'm sure that it is a wonderful camera, but you may > want to check out the new Nikon FM3a. Nikon has realized that there are > those that don't want that confusing array of options and the FM3a is a > manual focus, simple metering machine. I have an F100 and an N80. I don't > use a fraction of the features, but I have found the predictive autofocus > (on the F100) and the AFS lenses really do change what you can do in sports > photography. ><Snip> I should be obvious that this is a list which consists of people who HAVE checked out most and many of the Nikons and have gone with Leica instead. Had YOU ever shot with a Leica R8? It does not sound like you have bothered. Perhaps you should give it a shot?! It is a stupendous camera! If you're so happy about your Nikons perhaps you should tell the Nikon list all about it I'm sure they'd be interested. Here i just comes across as some kind of a weird naïve troll. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/