Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Radioactivity and dopey M's
From: Roger Urban <ruler_supreme@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:43:02 -0800 (PST)

Rought life! 2 M6's and you're complaining? Trade one
of them for a COntax G2, better yet, wait for the G3
to come out. That way you get the advanced features,
Zeiss lenses and still have an M6.


>BTW, I'm still pissed that after almost 50 years of
>development the M
>camera
>still doesn't have TTL viewing.  What's with this
>dopey
>viewfinder/rangefinder crap?  Short of a straight
>viewfinder and scale
>focusing, that has to be the most antiquated and
>inaccurate
>sighting/focusing method imaginable.  Every other
>camera manufacturer
>seems
>to have figured this out; Herbert Keppler in Popular
>Photography has
>figured
>this out; heck, even Leica Camera has figured this
>out -- they make R
>cameras don't they?  So what's with this stupid,
old->fashioned M6?
>
>It just burns me up.  And what makes it worse is I
>didn't realize what
>a
>hopeless camera the M6 was to use before I bought a
>second one.  Now
>you
>tell me!
>
>Rob Schneider


=====

Ruler Supreme



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