Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I thought that the Mamiya 500TL was the cat's meow until I handled someone else's Pentax Spotmatic. Like the difference between a Bessa R2 and a Leica M6. The Pentax's rubberized curtain was more like ker-chunk than ker-chack! For anything requiring quiet, I used my father's Retina. On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:22:21 -0800, Peter Klein <pklein@2alpha.net> wrote: > Jeffrey: Oooh, I remember the Mamaya 500DTL. Loudest SLR in the west! I > didn't dare take it into the New Hampshire mountains in the winter for fear > the shutter noise would start an avalanche. :-)