Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And it still isn't automated...;-) - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Guy Bennett Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:12 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 at a Bris >Right you are...It was really an SP camera, not an AE, despite Canon hanging >that name on it....And how could I have been off by four years? Good God! So >it really only took Leica 26 years, not, as I inferred, 30 years, to come up >with essentially the same degree of "automation" Canon introduced to its >line in...1976.;-) >B. D. Which statement is based on the presumption that automation is the logically desirable end in camera evolution. I tend to look at it from this angle: Leica managed to hold out for 26 years before they felt obligated to automate the M. Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html