Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]38, bought my first Leica M when I was about 27. That's also about when I began to haul my gear around much more and began counting grams. The R8 and Nikon F100 (Pentax ZX-5n?) that I'm looking over today aren't that much different from the Minolta XD-11 I really wanted in the '70s. These days I don't get too excited about whether the shutter is cloth or metal or whether the meter cell is gallium arsenide or silicon but I do care that it all comes together as a package that really works well and I pay a lot more attention to the human engineering aspects--so easy to design a lot of features into a camera but so much trickier to make them all seem natural and obvious--it's ironic that many automated cameras need very thick instruction books! Jeff Segawa no archive