[Leica] A few of my favorite things- 4

[John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>]

Dave Rodgers wrote:

THINGS I'VE LEARNED

I'll never mention "pop-up flash" as an option I'd like to see on an
"improved" M body...

The Black Paint LHSA M6 -- while already appealing -- will be infinately
moreso once production stops....

Ambient light measurement using the hand held meter for my M2, M3, M4, 
and
M4P was "novel". Then I purchased an M6, whenceforth "novel" became
synonymous with "exceedingly cumbersome"...

Lens shades ARE important.

UVa filters aren't.

The beauty I saw in the performance of my "classic M lenses" dwindled, 
once
I could afford the latest M offerings.

Though I now can afford the the latest offerings I work so many hours 
that
I have no time for photography. (Somewhere in that a lesson is hidden.).

The countless hours spent peering at MTF charts that I couldn't read, 
much
less understand, was time wasted. I should have moved to Leica -- both M
and R -- sooner and ingored the charts.

When I had AF cameras they were the greatest....until the next 
generation
of AF came along.

A tripod can improve a lens, considerably.

My very first camera -- a Kodak 35 -- would still be a great picture
taker...if the shutter worked.

Reliability is more important than lens performance. When lacking, the
former is much more noticable -- and annoying -- than the latter.

Good projection lenses and enlarger lenses are worth the cost.

Lens performance is inversely related to coffee consumption and directly
related to fitness (at least for hand held photography).

Anyone who doesn't think the latest Leica lenses are superb should  
start
making 16X20 inch enlargements.

One should never use a loupe to view detail in a projected slide
image...unless you happen to be   the invisible man.

The thrill of seeing a good b/w photograph come to life under a 
safelight
never gets old (seeing a scanned image pop on the screen just isn't the
same).

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