Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc For an answer to your and BD's requests, just look at the company that now owns Leica.-- Hermes. Though to confound that, my wife has some Hermes bags that are 70 years old, in perfect shape. Jerry Marc James Small wrote: > At 01:20 PM 2/21/03 -0500, bdcolen wrote: > >The end of what, fer Gd's sake? At this point there is NO wholly > >mechanical Leica being manufactured. So if that is your standard, the > >end has come and gone already. And if it has, I find it odd that > >screaming masses of photographers haven't started throwing themselves > >from buildings yet. > > The issue, BD, is longevity, something which someone of your apparent youth > might not appreciate. There is a true system approach from Leitz between > 1922 and 1982, with many gizmos from one year fitting cameras made years > before or years afterwards. (For example, my M6 Wetzlar will take Leitz > film cassettes and all Visoflex goodies.) This approach eroded in the > 1980's and, today, is toast. > > My M3 will be repairable to the end of time, so long as I can find someone > to make a gear or two for me. An M7 will die when the electronics are no > longer available -- and, judging by Canon and Nikon standards, this will be > within a decade or so. > > There is nothing wrong with 'modern' cameras. There is something sad, > though, when the last all-mechanical 35mm rangefinder (other than the FED-5 > and -5B and -5S, if they are still being made) passes on. An era has passed. > > Leica SHOULD have been advertising their M6 as a camera repairable for > decades to come but failed to do this. Thus, we are stuck with a > 'disposable' M7 which is a nice enough camera, for the all of it, but which > has no predictable longevity. > > Marc > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html