Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/02

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Subject: RE: [Leica] To M7 or not to M7, c'est la question - LONG
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 15:38:26 -0400

Wait...Let me make sure that I get this right:

Any opinion that this is not the greatest Leica product of all times, as
opposed to being a disappointment because it didn't incorporate any
generally available post-1970 technology, is sour grapes?

Excuse me, Paul, but that statement is more than a little foolish.

Yes, adding something as basic as AE to the M6 is long overdue. So in that
sense it's a "slam dunk." But adding a flash sync of, say, a 250th - or even
a 125th, adding a shutter with a top speed of a 4000th - or even a 2000th,
eliminating viewfinder flare right out of the box - rather than saving it
for the M7redux to be released after Photokina, providing a high-sync speed
flash that can be used in TTL mode - like Canon and Olympus, are all
features that many people were waiting for and didn't get. And those are
features that would have made an M7 much more of a must-have for many of us
than AE exposure.

Sour grapes? No. Just disappointment.

Further, I'd suggest that the M5 was a slam dunk but at the time it came out
the bulk of the Leica user base had its head to firmly wedged in the 1930s
to recognize a truly revolutionary camera for what it was. A truly
revolutionary camera.

B. D.

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[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Paul
Chefurka
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 2:46 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] To M7 or not to M7, c'est la question - LONG


On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 13:39:44 -0400, "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>Breathlessly? I don't think so.;-)

You might not have had a worm on your tongue (baited breath?), but I
certainly did - otherwise I wouldn't have bought a Hexar RF in the interim.
After a month or more with mine, I can say I'm firmly in Ted and Tina's
camp when it comes to the value of the thing.

I have a .58 on order, and when it arrives I will be slimming down my Leica
portfolio to just two bodies - .72 and .58 M7's.  This is Leica's first
slam-dunk since the original M6, and any opinion to the contrary is plain
old sour grapes...

Paul
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Replies: Reply from Mark Rabiner <mark@markrabiner.com> (Re: [Leica] To M7 or not to M7, c'est la question - LONG)
Reply from Paul Chefurka <paul@chefurka.com> (Re: [Leica] To M7 or not to M7, c'est la question - LONG)