[Leica] The CL...a Dissenting Opinion

[heintz at ucalgary.ca (John W. Heintz)]

On 25 Apr 2005, at 18:52, "Buzz Hausner" <buzz.hausner@verizon.net> 
wrote:

> I am probably the only one on this list who is enough of a curmudgeon 
> to
> say that I can't stand the Leica CL.  I owned one for a number of years
> and really tried to like it.

Alas, Buzz, I'm the other one who couldn't stand the CL. In fact, till 
I read your post I'd been thinking my father-in-law's IIIf was my first 
(and only) Leica. Then I remembered I'd bought a CL w/ 40mm and 90mm 
years ago to take on sabbatical and managed never to get used to it. 
the rangefinder was, for my eyes then, impossible. (And I also dropped 
it . . . .)

Some will wonder how well I'm doing with the IIIf rangefinder, and I 
confess not a lot better, but BETTER still. I'm toying with the idea of 
a Bessa for M-mount lenses and as a second body, but could never go 
back to the d----d CL!

john