[Leica] Outside Magazine's "The Best" list

["Dave Myers" <myers@beautifulmichigan.com>]

Just got the October issue of Outside magazine in which there is an article
entitled "The Best 120 Cool Things."  On the list are such things as a
$5,600 Steven Cycles Odonata road bike, the Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium
Edition computer, the $2,500 TAG Heuer Kirium TiS watch, and the $430,000
Aerodyne 47 sailing vessel.  There are two cameras on the list the Nikon
FM3A and our beloved Leica M6.  Nice big picture of the M6 (no picture of
the Nikon). They describe the M6 as follows:

"Over decades, Leica has emerged as the maker of the sturdiest, most
reliable small cameras on earth.  While, ahem, not exactly cheap, the M6 TTL
shown here, has a bombproof body capable of enduring extremes in temperature
and vibration -- a masterwork of fussy German engineering.  As a range
finder camera, the M6 lacks the hinged mirror and spring-loaded iris of an
SLR, so the shutter release is both whisper-quiet and extremely fast.
Loading the film is tricky, but with exquisite optics and incomparable
durability, you'll have a lifetime to practice."

It doesn't get much better than that for the folks in Solms.

Dave