Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: Erwin Puts
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:21:49 -0800 (PST)

Ok 
Fair enough you may like the least number of features
but whould have been wrong with introducing an M6e
along with the M6 in 84. We're not talking about a
multimode
auto everything body, just an aperture preferred
camera with manual override speeds.
Javier

Feliciano di Giorgio wrote:
> 
> >Javier Perez wrote:
> > IMHO to pay the 2000+ that it will probably
> > cost isto reward a company for not innovating or
progressing
> > in more than 30 years. How many of you remember
the first
> > functional autofocus camera? It was a Leica. What
> > happened!
> > Javier
> 
> Somehow I have the feeling that if Leica came out
with a auto-everything
> camera, like the Hexar or G2, the Leica legions
would be massing in
> front of the gates of the Solms factory with
pitchforks and torches
> like the villagers in a Frankenstein movie.
> 
> I had the oppertunity to spend some time with a G2
and it's not my cup
> of tea. Too many buttons and gadgets to get in the
way. And that's
> coming from a guy who makes his living in digital
imaging. I can stomach
> the electronic shutter (although you will have pry
my M2 and M6 from my
> cold, dead fingers), because they kept the
electronics transparent and
> in spirit it's basicly the same camera with a built
in crutch if you
> need it.
> 
> I think Leica falls in the same category as Linhof.
If it ain't broken,
> don't fix it. The Technika has changed marginaly
since WWII, yet it
> still is the benchmark for cameras of it's type. If
you add
> auto-everything to an M it will be a beast of a
different kind. If you
> want that kind of camera, Konika and Contax have
been making them for
> 5-10 years.
> 
> feli
> 
>
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