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Subject: [Leica] What if digital hadn't come along?
From: barry98 at telus.net (Barry Hinderks)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:28:04 -0800
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100% right....
BarryH

At 08:23 PM 3/2/2012, you wrote:
>OM-3
>On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak wrote:
>
> > From: "Robert Meier" <robertmeier at usjet.net>
> >
> >> Would there have have been further development in film 
> cameras?  What would you improve on the M6TTL, M7, or MP?   Or the 
> R9?   Or the Nikon F6?
> >
> >> What do you think?
> >
> >> Robert
> > 
> ======================================================================================================================================
> > I would have liked an M3 with built-in meter.  I prefer that 
> viewfinder, with high magnification, and frames for 50-90-135.  I 
> just don't shoot much with anything wider than a 50mm.  I'm always 
> amused by the popularity of wide angles as general purpose 
> lenses.  A 90 is almost my "normal", so I was pleased last week to 
> be given an Olympus Zuiko 50mm f/1.4.  When I use it on my 30D, it 
> becomes an 80mm f/1.4.  (For my Leicas, I have a rigid 9 cm Elmar 
> LTM, a collapsible 90mm Elmar, a Nikkor 85mm f/2 LTM and an 85mm 
> F/1.5 Lithagon LTM)
> >
> > I thought the best Nikon was the F2, except for the meter switch 
> being the wind lever; then they went downhill with built-in motors 
> and AF.  The F3 was battery dependent and the later models were way 
> too big.  My very favorite SLR was the Olympus OM4T - perfect size, 
> large, bright viewfinder with built-in diopter correction, and 
> great metering system.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> > UPAA POY 1978
> > University Information Technology Services
> > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> > amr3 at uwm.edu
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> >
> > "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate
> > for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
> >
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