Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] DR a bargain??
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 11:00:42 -0500

At 08:59 AM 11/3/1999 +0000, Mike Johnston wrote:
>...But those prices are for DR's WITH the eyes. If you find a nice DR
>that is missing its eyes, it can be a great bargain compared to either
>the complete DR or the Rigid. And who in the world NEEDS the eyes these
>days, to do something any SLR can do better? 

Don't be a fool.  The DR provides a nice and quite portable macro capacity
without the horrors associated with SLR's.  An SLR cannot do the job
"better", as it is an SLR and, by definition, a piece of rattly-ass junk
compared to a rangefinder.

Marc

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