Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R8 design part 1
From: "Patrick G. Sobalvarro" <pgs@sobalvarro.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 19:51:09 -0700
 
Erwin Puts wrote:
> 
> On request from many Luggers, here part 1 of the translated R8 design report.
> 
> The first single-lens-reflex with that famous M-feeling.

Here we are of course discussing a matter of taste, but I personally
would say that the Leicaflex cameras (Standard, SL, SL2) feel much more
M-like to me than does the R8.  (Of course, my M camera is an M2, not an
M6.)

- -Patrick