Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan C., you wrote: <Nowadays, lets face it, the rangefinder is a relic,> Then how do you explain the Mamiya 6 introduced in 1990 and the very successful Mamiya 7 introduced just 2 years ago. Tom >This was in 1953 or 1954, when the rangefinder still reigned supreme among >miniature cameras. Nowadays, lets face it, the rangefinder is a relic, >loved and nurtured by a relatively few of us fools (used in a kind and >loving tone ;-)) . If the leica had never existed, and some German >company in Solms decided today to introduce a camera called the Leica M6, >priced as it is, it would be a complete flop. Who would buy it when faced >with the competition? We love the M6 partly for what it is, but also for >what it was. Make too many changes to it, and suddenly it becomes a very >expensive modern camera that does a job only half as well as SLRs and >Contax G2s , but at 2 or 3 times the cost. > >I've said it before, but here goes again: The Leica will never be obsolete >because it already IS obsolete! The M7 that everyone seems to be >clamouring for will be obsolete the day it leaves the factory floor. > >Dan C. > >