Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/09

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Subject: [Leica] Canon with Leica Adapter
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Tue Nov 9 19:19:51 2004

on 11/9/04 6:34 PM, Tina Manley at images@infoave.net wrote:

> At 05:40 PM 11/9/2004, you wrote:
>> But its made for the masses issues are an insult to compare against the
>> current rock solid Leica R offerings. They are three leagues apart.
>> Four.
>> 
>> Mark Rabiner
> 
> The body is a light-tight black box to hold the film (or digital
> stuff).  It's the lens that matters.  If the box can stay light-tight
> through what I put cameras through, it's good enough for me.  I would like
> a better view-finder but I'm not willing to wait several months and pay
> $5000 for a better viewfinder.  Leica has not proved to me that they know
> what they are doing with digital yet.  Canon knows.  The digital files are
> wonderful.
> 
> Tina
>

Some black boxes have better viewfinders than others.  I'd rather use film
than suffer an inadequate viewfinder.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com



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