Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [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 - -- 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