Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Why all the fuss? Even Leitz, 30 years (give or take) after introducing their screwmount camera, saw fit to launch a photographic revolution by releasing the M3. They chucked most of their old technology and styling and gave the world a much better, faster-operating, more versatile, and stunningly modern camera. Anyone still complaining about that? They released the IIIG to satisfy their then-aging loyal clientel, but won a whole new and very influential market with the M-cameras. They changed photography. I, for one, have faith that they could do it all again if only people would permit the brains at Solms to let the creative juices flow and stretch the boundaries of 35mm once more. I sometimes wonder whether the naysayers just don't believe that Leica can get it right in the '90s. Who, then, are the truly faithful acolytes? Those who revere only the past, or those who also yearn for future glories?