Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]telyt560@cswebmail.com jotted down the following: > On Sun, 01 October 2000, Martin Howard wrote: > >> >> Dan Cardish jotted down the following: >> >>> Nothing fancy, just a minimum of controls, a TTL lightmeter at most. Like >>> the R6.2, but even more basic and smaller. >> >> How can you get more basic than the R6?!?? Short of removing the shutter >> speed dial and replacing it with the slot-width control knob of the >> nullseries? >> >> M. >> > > Leica could eliminate the TTL flash and center-weighted metering, but I can't > see that would cut costs much. Likewise the motor/winder connections. Oh yeah, *that* sounds like a good idea: Take a perfectly usable camera, and cripple it. M. - -- Martin Howard | "Once you understand the process of co- Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | ordination, it's much easier to avoid. email: howard.390@osu.edu | Knowledge is power." -- K. Christoffersen. www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +--------------------------------------------