Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am really quite surprised at how now everyone has glommed onto the S3 as a new target for attack. Maybe this email group should be renamed the sour grapes society. I have so far seen everything from "it's made of spare parts" to "I've got a bridge to sell." Sorry if - -- Nikon RF bodies are rarer than Leica; - -- The 50/1.4 Nikkor was equal to or better than the Leica equivalents; - -- The S3 has much a longer effective baselength than an M6; and - -- Even with 7,000 copies Nikon is making far fewer than Leitz's **one year** M6 production. Doesn't anyone remember that Nikon owned a big piece of the rangefinder market and that its late rangefinder cameras (like the SP) were more innovative than Leica's? Nikon's lenses (including those mounted for Leica) were also top flight (maybe someone can tell me what Leica made in SM in the 1950s or even 1960s that was at all comparable to an 85 or 105 Nikkor rangefinder lens). So why not $6,000? - people on this group regularly drop that much on products put out by the Franklin Mint, Solms Division. If the S3 is made on the same tooling then it is brass, which would make it a very nice piece. Is it too late to order a red-sealskin leather gold plated reproduction attrape M3? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dante Stella http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante