Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re: OM as Leica of SLRs
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Fri Jun 8 19:55:29 2007

Must be why the SL still works so well after all these years.

-------------- Original message from Lawrence Zeitlin 
<lrzeitlin@optonline.net>: -------------- 


> 
> On Jun 8, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Doug Herr wrote: 
> 
> > Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: 
> > 
> >> The pictures are excellent whatever camera was used. 
> > 
> > agreed! Keep posting! 
> > 
> >> Besides the Olympus OM cameras are the best SLRs ever made. They 
> >> are the 
> > Leicas 
> >> of SLRs. 
> > 
> > We might differ here... depends on what properties of the Leica 
> > rangefinders you find most important. I've always thought the 
> > Leicaflex SL 
> > was the Leica of SLRs ;-) 
> 
> 
> I'm an unreconstructed fan of the later III series Leicas. Small 
> size, convenience, portability, good handling, decent lenses. The 
> Olympus OM SLRs fit that bill nicely. The Leicaflex SL was made of 
> discarded parts of Tiger tanks. ;-) 
> 
> Larry Z 
> 
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