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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 whining
From: bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen)
Date: Thu Sep 14 18:34:30 2006

True - I think. ;-)


On 9/14/06 6:14 PM, "telyt@earthlink.net" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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