Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In einer eMail vom 17.08.1997 17:00:35, schreiben Sie: > >Agree that Leica needs to pretty up their M-6 which looks like it was >finished >by ninth grade shop students. Just compare the top plate with the older M >series cameras. The old one is elegant while the new one is bare-assed >naked! >Apparently, the new crew does not have an eye for how things should look. >Kind >of like sending bulldozer designers to put the finishing touches on a >Porsche. We all live in a free country, and you are free to buy an M6 ESL ... has some nice engravings ... >Reminds me of their need to upgrade their M-6 brochure which is just a bunch >of >fuzzy photos rather than razor sharp images the lenses are capable of >producing >in the the hands of capable photographers. Leica has always lost out to the >Hasselblad advertising because Hasselblad had the good sense to provide sharp >photos while the Leica executives pumped out stuff even newsprint >photographers >would be ashamed to print. Absolutely sorry, to agree ... - -Alf