Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leicaflex or Leica M ?
From: Peterson Arthur G NSSC <PetersonAG@NAVSEA.NAVY.MIL>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:38:02 -0500

There are always limits, artificial and otherwise, to everything; one simply
chooses which ones he best can live with.

Art Peterson


- -----Original Message-----
From:	Tim Spragens [mailto:info@borderless-photos.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, February 14, 2001 2:54 PM
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: [Leica] Leicaflex or Leica M ?

On 14 Feb 2001, at 8:11, Nathan Wajsman wrote:

> But surely
> you will agree that the raison d'etre for a rangefinder is wide-angle,
> snapshot-type photography.

For me, a rangefinder is a small, portable, quiet camera with 
limitations WRT focal lengths and close focus. Since rediscovering 
them, I'm trying to push them as far as I can. I don't want artificial 
limits.