Re: [Leica] Outside Magazine's "The Best" list

[ternahan <ternahan@sonic.net>]

and in the new MOMA design catalog you can buy a handblown and painted in
Germany Leica M6 ornament...it even has a see through lens. But, hey, you
know it's not the real thing  because it will only set you back $16......
trish
ternahan@gentlelens.net


> From: "Dave Myers" <myers@beautifulmichigan.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 21:51:10 -0400
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: [Leica] Outside Magazine's "The Best" list
> 
> Just got the October issue of Outside magazine in which there is an article
> entitled "The Best 120 Cool Things."  On the list are such things as a
> $5,600 Steven Cycles Odonata road bike, the Apple Powerbook G4 Titanium
> Edition computer, the $2,500 TAG Heuer Kirium TiS watch, and the $430,000
> Aerodyne 47 sailing vessel.  There are two cameras on the list the Nikon
> FM3A and our beloved Leica M6.  Nice big picture of the M6 (no picture of
> the Nikon). They describe the M6 as follows:
> 
> "Over decades, Leica has emerged as the maker of the sturdiest, most
> reliable small cameras on earth.  While, ahem, not exactly cheap, the M6 TTL
> shown here, has a bombproof body capable of enduring extremes in temperature
> and vibration -- a masterwork of fussy German engineering.  As a range
> finder camera, the M6 lacks the hinged mirror and spring-loaded iris of an
> SLR, so the shutter release is both whisper-quiet and extremely fast.
> Loading the film is tricky, but with exquisite optics and incomparable
> durability, you'll have a lifetime to practice."
> 
> It doesn't get much better than that for the folks in Solms.
> 
> Dave
>