Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re: IIIg
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:21:37 -0400

Greater magnification as well as brightlines for the 50mm and bright corner
markers for the 90mm. Also parallax correction.

Ken Wilcox

At 07:06 AM 6/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>I am not a IIIg expert but doesn't the IIIg have a higher VF
>magnification than the IIIf ? 
>
>I always thought that was the major advantage.
>
>Dennis
>
>
>Martin Howard wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe I don't get it, maybe I just need an aesthetical adjustment, but
>> I don't understand the hype around the IIIg.  I think they are ugly as
>> sin.  Look like a bastardized concoction of left-over spare parts that
>> someone bolted together in their spare time and slapped chrome on.
>> 
>> The BD IIIf without self-timer is really good looking, especially with
>> the wider shutter speed dial.  But then it appears someone at Wetzlar
>> fed the thing steroids in an uncontrolled experiement, and the hideous
>> result is the IIIg.
>> 
>> Rather have a black and nickel II or III any day of the week.
>> 
>> M.
>
>
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