Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Guy Bennett wrote: > as features go, the above items are as desirable to me as autofocus > (i.e. not at all); they are the very things i was more than happy to > live without in buying a leica rangefinder. A quiet motor make one much less obtrusive, because fiddling with the crank gives people the (correct) idea that you're taking their picture. > for me, the hexar and is a moot camera. had i wanted a rangefinder > with the features of an automatic camera, i would have bought a g2. Those won't take those fast and cool Leica lenses and they autofocus with very limited override capabilities. > all of the recent discussion of the 'advantages' of the konica and > cosina cameras has made me appreciate all the more my m6 and iiif. > > i'm happy with them the way they are. The dinosaurs were a happy lot as well. Now we scrape them out of the dirt to put them on display. Bernard