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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: My last word on RF
From: "David Enzel" <dhenzel@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 20:46:33 -0400

This sure can be a tough group.  What ever happened to being open to a free
marketplace of ideas?

DAVID ENZEL
Chevy Chase, Maryland

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jim Brick
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 8:35 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Re: My last word on RF

After all, the charter of this list is "Leica." And if you don't find Leica
very much fun, perhaps you should find a list that is NOT a Leica list.

And, after all, pining eloquently about the virtues of the Hexar on a Leica
list is like raving about Fuji film on a Kodak list. Or about Toyotas on a
BMW list.

So, on the "match-needle metering and out of curiosity, which M camera were
you speaking about?

Jim

ps... an M camera with a RapidWinder is very stealthy, very fast, and very
left eye friendly. Just ask Ted, who only has a left eye, and has produced
one of the greatest B&W Leica coffee table books available today, and
shoots his M camera professionally, day in, day out, and is at this moment,
giving his famous Cape Cod Leica Workshop on left eyed M'manship.


At 06:34 PM 9/12/00 -0400, Dante Stella wrote:
>
>I didn't find the M-body experience too fun.  Underbody loading and
>match-needle metering don't really do it for me.  They take away from the
>fun of taking pictures.
>
>The Hexar attracts nothing but attacks.  They all center around "quality"
>and "precision" and whatnot.  I think the attacks are partly the proximity
>of the RF to Leica's signature body line, and partly due to resentment at
>Leica for not coming out with it first.  When it comes down to it, as long
>as full manual control is available, there is no rational argument to be
>made that the availability of automation is a menace or a burden or
>whatnot.  There is not much argument to be made that having a higher top
>shutter speed is irrelevant or an impediment, or that it is never
>necessary to synch at 1/125 of a second.  Many of these criticisms are
>best addressed as sour grapes.
>
>Dante