Re: [Leica] red dot blues

[Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>]

At 08:08 AM 2/24/98 -0600, Eric wrote:
>
>nowadays, the red dot seems a bit old fashioned to me. Heck, just yesterday
>someone said to me as I shot with my M6 in a new restaurant in town, "Why
>does a pro like you shoot with a point-and-shoot?" I took my 35 Summilux
>ASPH off the camera, held up that tiny piece of metal and glass and told
>them what it cost. Were they ever surprised. (It was a friend).
>
>Eric Welch

I was doing exactly the same thing last weekend. I took some pictures of
one of my favorite waitresses as she sat beside my daughter, and she said,
while looking at my M6/Rapidwinder, "what a funny camera, Leeka? and what's
that thing you are fiddling with on the bottom?" "I thought you would be
using a professional camera." So I asked her what she thought a
professional camera looked like, and she said "you know, big and makes a
lot of noise when you take pictures."

Jim