Re: [Leica] Aesthetics vs. Function

["Michael E. Bérubé" <MEB@goodphotos.com>]

At 12:35 PM 3/19/01 -0500, Douglas Cooper wrote:
>Leica has simply become lazy, and complacent in the face of
>mediocrity.  And it's sad.

True, but if we remember that they got their lunch handed to them the last 
time they made a major aesthetic design change in their RF line (the best M 
body...the M5), one can hardly blame them for being cautious and 
conservative. It is sad, but then again, look what they did with the design 
of the R8.

I'd like to see some new RFs in those groovy art deco lines and colours 
that Kodak used in the early 20C with its consumer cameras.
(But I'm an Art Deco/Arts&Crafts movement kinda guy.)
Michael