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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 whining
From: gregj.lorenzo at shaw.ca (GREG LORENZO)
Date: Thu Sep 14 16:07:34 2006
References: <380-220069414221448578@M2W010.mail2web.com>

Doug Herr writes:

> 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 
> trulyhappy 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.
> 

LOL!

In reply to: Message from telyt at earthlink.net (telyt@earthlink.net) ([Leica] Re: M8 whining)