Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]someone wrote:From: TEAShea@aol.com Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:04:58 EDT Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V3 #88 In a message dated 5/30/98 10:48:00 AM EST, tedgrant@islandnet.com writes: << Class act Charlie, have a good shoot before some weany whiner complains that the good old Speed Graphic didn't come in chrome! :) >> I get the impression that the aesthetics of a camera are not important to Ted. my response: I dunno about Ted, but aesthetics are the whole thing, not just the cosmetics, but the feel, the heft, the eperience of using. The M-3 with goggled lens and MC meter looks rather antique, and I like that. My baby speed graphic -- which was a lot of fun to use, if clumsy -- was downright funky. The hassle -- focus with one viewfinder, frame with another, cock the shutter, remember to remove dark slide -- was rather pleasant to go through and reminds you that this is a photograph you are making, not just another piece of exposed film. The babes playing vollyball I was shooting were cute too. charlie trentelman ogden, Utah