Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, You are right to be cautious. I opened mine and one article was badly contaminated and the issue was only saved by Tom and Henning's wonderful article on 21mm lenses. Unfortunately Roy Moss's article on M4 cameras was about the worst thing I have ever seen in a Leica magazine. I do not mind people having personal favourites but to viciously slam other cameras is annoying and immature. Initial teething problems in the M4 are glossed over* while the M4-2 is raked over the coals for its initial production bugs. H***, initial M4-2 production involved moving all the M manufacturing equipment thousands of miles and training new staff. He then praises (faintly) the M4-P! The M4-P is an identical camera off the same production line as the M4-2. The only real difference is the frameline mask set. There is a selective quote from Norm Goldberg slamming the M4-2 while I have an article from 1980 where he says it is a great camera but the early ones need to be adjusted properly. Once again the KS15-4/M2-R is given the credit as the camera for which rapid loading was developed. Looking at production allocation dates and prototypes, it is obvious that rapid loading was being developed for the M4 and used in the KS15-4 not the other way around. Sorry about the rant but Leica "purists" who think it cannot be a Leica unless it is made in Wetzlar drive me nuts. Now where the h*** did my therapist's number get to... John Collier * Why there would be any at all is amazing as the camera is not that much different from a M3 and the same production crew was used. > From: Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> I got mine. >> The new "Viewfinder" was waiting for me when i got back from San Antonio last >> weekend with the Leica M4 on red box on the cover. >> A week later than everyone else cause i drove. > > It is a great magazine and itself sufficient reason to join the LHSA. I got > mine > yesterday, but given the news I am watching re the seemingly more and more > widespread > anthrax threat I am not opening the envelope nor any other mail from the > U.S.:-( > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html