Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]More like...Taking the meter out of the MP reminds me of the bitching that the M5 was too big and un-Leica leic, and who needed a meter anyway...:-) The reality about how Leica got into its present mess is that it's biggest fans drove it there by insisting that change was bad, and slavish worship of the past was good. Keep in mind that the one time the company too a real step forward, with the M5, it took a bath. So it stuck to the past, kept the fanboys happy, and then woke up about, what, five years back to discover that the fanboys weren't, and aren't, enough to keep the company afloat. On 6/21/05 4:37 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: > If Leica gets about 1% of all the camera purchases, it will be sitting very > pretty :-) I don't know, may be it's 0.0000001% or something? > > At 01:22 PM 6/21/2005, B. D. Colen wrote: > >> Makes perfect sense to me - 99% of those in the photo world move ever >> forward into the digital age, and the Leica diehards move ever backward >> toward the age of glass plates. :-) >> >> >> On 6/21/05 4:21 PM, "Richard" <richard-lists@imagecraft.com> wrote: >> >>> The logic of not having a light meter just escapes me... I guess they are >>> truly for the ones that wish they had bought the original MPs.... >>> Otherwise, how difficult is it not put it new set of batteries :-)? > > // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please > use richard at imagecraft.com) > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information