Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/14

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Subject: [Leica] Re: M8 whining
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu Sep 14 18:47:42 2006
References: <380-220069414221448578@M2W010.mail2web.com>

I belong to Nikon groups a swell, and this sort of grumbling is endemic 
there - the most masochistic photographers shoot Nikon!! Even this full 
frame stuff, the lens compatibility, etc sound eerily familiar.
Cheers
Jayanand

telyt@earthlink.net wrote:

>On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:02 PM, B.D. wrote:
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>>For literally
>>years now we've been hearing that if Leica ever produces a digital  
>>M it had damn well better be a clone of a film M with electronics
>>stuffed into it.  Well, from the looks of things, Leica has come
>>as close as is physically possible to doing just that. So what do
>>we get here? Whining that, in effect, the camera has the 'faults'
>>of an M. Well DUH! You asked for a digital M - and you got a digital M!
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>B. D. I think what we're seeing here is that some people are never truly
>happy unless they have something to complain about.  OTOH the ones who are
>complaining that it has the faults of an M aren't nessesarily the same ones
>who wanted a digital camera's guts stuffed into an M body shell.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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