Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:26 PM 5/2/99 -0400, you wrote: >who says >Leica is "far behind the curve in the SLR business"? It doesn't have AF! Horrors! You'd think Leica R8s were made in the 60s the way people are talking. What other camera allows second-curtain flash sync. with ANY flash? Which other camera has built-in flash meter? (Contax RTS III and 645). Who has matrix metering? Everybody and their dogs. Who has AF-D? Nikon. Who has IS? Canon. Who created eye-control AF? Pentax! (Not Canon, they licensed it). Everybody has their technical advances and intelligently (most of the time) put it to use. I like the fact that Leica emphasizes the glass, which is where the tire hits the road, rather than the me-too one-upsmanship of the other companies who miss the point. It's the glass! Sure it's lacking in some technology. But some is by choice, not lack of technical savvy. But some people love to spin a negative impression of the R8, because they don't want people to use them, and say they like them, because somehow that must mean the complainer doesn't get it. It's the glass! (To repeat myself). At least that's my conspiracy theory and I'm stickin' to it. :-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch The arts and sciences, and a thousand appliances