Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:21 AM 23/08/99 -0400, Jay wrote: >M lenses too. Thank you for summing up what the rest of this list can't >seem to grasp. I had Nikon years ago. I had heard about Leica and >wanted to see if there really was a difference. Yes, there is. Since >then (despite a brief detour to Contax) I have not looked back. > I thought it was all part of the mystique and mythology too, until I saw that _other people_ could see the difference in Leica transparencies projected on a screen. That removed my own personal bias. Besides, the F5 just has too many darned buttons, controls and custom functions. I need something much simpler to use, so that I can think about more important things instead of trying to figure out what the buttons do and how to plug the camera into a computer to change custom functions, or where I put the owner's manual so that I can look up how to use one of those seldom-used doo-hickies. The simplicity of the M system gives me time and freedom to think photographically, instead of technically, if that makes sense to anyone else.