Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/02

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Ikon
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Oct 2 16:04:41 2004

Dare I say it - but Zeiss Ikon is a meaningless lable to any American
under 50 who does not work around microscopes. I know, I know -
binoculars. But even there, I'll bet it's a pretty meaningless marque
...

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Dan C
Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2004 6:07 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Zeiss Ikon


Of course, it will have that cute little "Zeiss Ikon" label on it in
place of the red dot.

-dan c.

At 05:50 PM 02-10-04 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote:
>One thing to keep in mind about the Zeiss, guys - assuming that it's a 
>really well built, solid body: If you can buy a new Zeiss with a good 
>warranty for what you can buy a used M6 for, why would you be buying an

>M6 with a slower flash sync, slower top shutter speed, bottom loading, 
>and lower viewfinder magnification - other than to buy a red dot. And 
>all of that is assuming that the Zeiss is a high quality body. I'd 
>suggest that we may not only be at the end of the age of film, but if 
>this camera is as good as promised, we may also be at the end of the 
>age in which one automatically goes for the Leica M assuming it to be 
>superior to everything else.
>
>But who knows, it may turn out that it is still superior. :-)
>
[snip]
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