Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:34 PM 10/25/01 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: >Probably no room....As a former LUGer pointed out to me, in order to >combine the viewfinder and rangefinder, Leica had to load the IIIG up on >steroids and morph it into....The M3...So I doubt they could get a meter >in there....Still a nice camera... Well, actually, there are totally different design concepts behind the IIIg and the M3. The one didn't "morph" into the other -- the IIIg was the product of a design team committed to Barnack's principles, while the M3 was the product of a design team inspired by Ernst Leitz. Different strokes for different folks! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html