Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last Saturday I went to the Photo East show at the Jacob Javits center Here are my LUG observations: The Leica booth was unusual in that there were black formica tables in an oval. There were no pieces of equipment on display in these tables. You had to ask for a specific piece of equipment to be taken out of a hidden shelf. The IIIa Minox replica: Fixed focus, fixed aperature, fixed speed tiny camera with a seperate full sized hand grip flash attachment. It reminded me of the tiny toy roll film cameras of the 1950's. There were three prints taken with the camera lying around. Don't thow away your Kodak 110 camera for this one. The Leica A redux: A beautiful camera to hold (I got an angry stare when I wound and fired the shutter) The rubber plug lens cap was a necessity because the shutter slit does not close when resetting the shutter and winding the film The camera felt solid and there was a certain satisfying feeling about the spherical black shutter button. The view finder was unusual in that it seems that the camera had to be held about 12 inches away from your eye to get the view in focus. We were told that the camera would sell for about $3,000. My wife asked who would use such a camera. Use??? "We sell this stuff to collectors, not to users." Wide Angle M6 What can I say. It had the crisp M6 feel but you lose the 135 frame. Et Al Voitlander showed the 12mm LTM. It looked great and felt smooth. The photos on display attributed to this lens were sharp, contrasty and with little objectional distortion. Well that about wraps up the OT stuff that I saw. Jeff