Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Amateur Photographer testing the R8
From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 22:25:38 +0100

Leopold,
the interim editor of AP a short while back was a Leica user, too bad he
didn't stay on...
I suspect a lot of it is preconcieved notions by the writers or editors. I
work in the media, I think it's fair to acknowledge that!

Jem

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Leopold Green [SMTP:ldg@dmu.ac.uk]
> hi,
> 
> Amateur Photographer [a UK magazine] did a group test of 'top end manual
> cameras' in the current issue: R8, RTSIII and OM3TI and despite finding
> that
> the first Contax model failed, and the second one didn't handle
> 'difficult'
> lighting very well, and that the OM's shadow spot meter resulted in a
> completely underexposed slide, where as the R8 handled all exposures
> perfectly - guess what, first place the Olympus, second the Contax and
> third
> the R8! 
> 
> I don't know why it
> irritates so much, maybe because there aren't any decent magazines
> published
> here in the UK.
> 
> Leopold