Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sure, it's fine for folks to spend their money on whatever they like. And nothing wrong with shooting without a built in meter. OTOH, it probably legitimately ticks many folks off every time Leica caters to the collectors and historians while making little progress producing new updated RF camera designs (incl digital) for a potentially larger market of shooters. I mean, they've made variations on their basic M body with silk shutter - with its strenths and limitations - for decades. Keep making them. But why not try a different design? With different strengths and limitations? Might give some photogs a real excuse to buy a new Leica body. Scott Daniel Ridings wrote: >Not really disagreeing with what you say, but I would adjust "the one >time the company took a real step forward" to "one (of the two times) >the company took a real step forward" ... The M's were quite a deal >compared to the screwmounts. > >I'm one of those old-fashioned ones who don't really long for a meter >in the camera. Kills the company, mind you. I would have been >satisfied (and have been) with the M2 or M4. Wonder what had happened >if they quit doing r&d investments for bodies at the stage of the M4 >and said: "this is it. Now we just cash in." The photography magazines >would have stopped writing about them (they have anyway). > >Unfortunately, the cameras are just too good. There was no reason for >anyone to buy a new one, once they had one. Bad marketing. :-) > >Daniel > >On 6/21/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >