Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon Stevens jotted down the following: > Anyway, my question is this: What do LUGGERS think of as "old fashioned" > in a camera? Does simplicity denote old fashinedness? Styling? Quality > of construction? How do you evaluate lenses? If they are highly > perfected aspherical fixed focal lenght lenses, is that old fashioned > because they aren't zooms? The M6 IS old fashioned. It's basically the same design as the Leica II dating back to 1932, with some updates (RF in VF from M3 (1953?) and rather unsophisticated lightmetering). Even TTL flash dates back close to 20 years. The lens technology, however, is another matter. M. - -- Martin Howard | Hardware will break. Software comes Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | broken. email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- Unknown www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------