Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark writes: To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in 1954. To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky. ------ The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei 35SE. The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built prototypes of a Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M. Larry Z