Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/28/99 12:37:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << Dr. Black Tape is endlessly amused... By people who are so blindly loyal to anything with a Red Dot - small pox? "German" measles? The Doctor didn't suggest that cameras with flap-backs twist in the wind. He was, however, suggesting, that having a back that is an integral part of the camera body lends stability to the camera. >> Too bad Dr. Black Tape is so enraptured by his own cleverness that he fails to recognize sarcasm when it resounds from someone else. My point, for the clue-challenged, was that Leica (and the blind loyalists with whom Dr. BT errantly has lumped me) can't defend the infuriating bottom-loading rangefinders without disparaging the back-opening reflexes, and vice-versa. The "stability" reasoning falls utterly flat. If it were true, the larger dimensions of the reflexes would benefit *even more* from closed-back design. DT