Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Do you like your SLING for the Leica M? Get the SHADE!
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:49:08 -0800
References: <003701c04538$295fc040$953d18d1@PACBELL.NET>

>Go to a photo flea market or junk shop. Buy a truly yucky polarising filter.
>Take it apart. Voila! My....I mean the Phantom's...exhaustive technical
>wizardry was to show how silly the "shareware" pricing is. If we all chipped
>in we could buy one sheet of polarising gel and parcel it out. Yikes!
>Socialism is running amuck!
>
>John Collier
>
>PS: Count me out, I am happy enough with my finder and the few times it
>flares, I use my finger to partially block the frameline illumination
>window. That way I get my cake (bright finder 99% of the time) and eat it
>too!

john,

hear hear (or is that 'here here'?). while the flare problem is indeed a
problem, i experience it so rarely that - though i bitch about it at the
time (guess i do that about everything) - i can live with it.

though i'm intrigued by the various 'improvements' third parties offer (and
hope they will continue to do so), i must say that i'm usually reluctant to
try them out - i like the camera too much as it is, and am willing to live
with the 1 or 2 things i wish it didn't do or live without the 1 or 2
things i wish it did.

guy

In reply to: Message from "Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com> (Re: [Leica] Do you like your SLING for the Leica M? Get the SHADE!)