Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"As bright as the average garden snail" ?! I didn't realize I could laugh as much as I do when I read some peoples posts! :) Keep them comming! - -Mark On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Martin Howard wrote: > Charles Hahn jotted down the following: > > > I think using a screw mount Leica can not only be > > cheaper than getting a Bessa, it also gives you a real > > education in Photography. > > More likely to give you a real education in how far camera technology has > come over the past 60-70 years. Sure, we can wax romantic about the glory > of screwmounts all we like, but the fact of the matter is that they're a > gigantic pain in the arse to load, expensive to repair, likely to need > repair (or at least CLA) right after being bought, don't have a built in > meter, possess a viewfinder which is about as bright as the average garden > snail, and are more likely to provide you with a real education in anger > management than anything to do with photography. > > I had a lovely black Leica II from 1933 which I tried using as a camera, > because I had romantic notions of 1930's photography. After finally > realizing that cameras are tools rather than items of jewelry, that I was > living in the 21st century, and that no matter how hard I imagined it I'd > never be HCB, I eBayed the little bugger and got a set of converter rings > for my LTM lenses which now sit on my M6TTL, when not doing time on a > Bessa-L. > > M. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html