Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Then let me be politically incorrect <g>. You can buy a Hexar RF Titanium limited edition with 50/1.2 lens from B&H Photo for $2499. If you consider that the lens alone is worth the price (and I know that some of you won't but it's a good lens), then you are getting an autoexposure M-mount camera with motordrive for free. Jeffery Smith On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 19:08:43 -0500, Bill Marshall <billgem@hotmail.com> wrote: > Luis, > > Karen's suggestion that you "split the difference" referred to cost. It is > not half way in terms of functionality. In fact, with the ZI option you > lose > no functionality whatsoever as you do with the option of the R3A (no 28 or > 35 mm framelines & shorter base length). If you weren't looking for a > cheaper solution, why consider the R3A at all? > > I thought that Karen's proposal was rather an elegant solution: i.e. don't > go so far in cutting costs & thereby lose features; only go half as far in > cutting costs & lose no features. I have no idea what this has to do with > "political correctness." > > Cheers, > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >