Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted: First, there are too many Toms here. I wrote what you quoted to Tom Shea. But, great finder and 250th sync on the R8 aside, I hate SLRs for weddings. Too loud. Too hard to focus in low light. SLRs are better with lenses longer than 100mm, and I never use long lenses for weddings, who does. Tom K. At 11:09 PM 2/2/98 -0500, you wrote: >Tom Shea wrote: > ><<<35mm is quickly becoming the format of choice for wedding photographers. >Leica Ms could own that market if they had a flash sync at 250th and even a >slow motor. I hate to rain on the Leica parade, but any company will take a >new market.>>>>>>>>> > >Tom, > >I don't have a problem with improving the shutter to 1/250 flash sync, >particularly where you say there is a market in the wedding shooter >studios. But every time there is an improvement which in this case would >benefit one group of owners, it is at the expense of all of us. > >Besides the M as is, is a great wedding photo camera! You work with it >using only available light where the lenses do their real magic. Now with >the R8 syncd at 1/250 the photgrapher has the best of both camera world's >using Leica all the way. > >ted > >