Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 whining
From: telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 14 15:19:49 2006

On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:02 PM, B.D. wrote:

> For literally
> years now we've been hearing that if Leica ever produces a digital  
> M it had damn well better be a clone of a film M with electronics
> stuffed into it.  Well, from the looks of things, Leica has come
> as close as is physically possible to doing just that. So what do
> we get here? Whining that, in effect, the camera has the 'faults'
> of an M. Well DUH! You asked for a digital M - and you got a digital M!

B. D. I think what we're seeing here is that some people are never truly
happy unless they have something to complain about.  OTOH the ones who are
complaining that it has the faults of an M aren't nessesarily the same ones
who wanted a digital camera's guts stuffed into an M body shell.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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