Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jan, There are scores of gear-head lists you can join and be utterly bored by. The LUG is a community of several hundred people. Many of us have been here for years. The better way to look at the lug is on Gmail rather than the digest. Then you can select what you want and delete the rest. This list covers all kinds of cameras, and lots of people showing pictures from everything from Holga to 8x10 view cameras. The knowledge spread through here is remarkable. The reason there is so much traffic about the M8 is that many of us use it, and there are some technical issues we share information on. As to the affordabilty of a camera, most of us who use an M8, choose it because it allows us to use our M lenses on a digital camera. Just this morning I shot pictures with my 1958 21mm super Angulon mounted on my M8. The price of it in my case was about the same as my two M7's, one for fast film and one for slow ISO. Now one camera does the trick of both. So, it is all in the way you look at it. By the way, I shoot also with an MDa, and soon I'll have my new to me Leica CL back. -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Jan Decher <alcedo@verizon.net> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I need to either unsubscribe or just occasionally look at this list on the > Web. Five digests in two days and so much off topic talk and endless > strings > of re-copied messages.... > > How do you folks manage all this information?? One of the problems is that > (at least in my browser - Firefox) you can't click on the topics at the > beginning of each digest and go just to the topics that interest you. So > you have to wade through all the stuff. > > Is there a smaller Leica (or German rangefinder) list that's not so much > into the unaffordable digital M8, likes to discuss older Leicas (& perhaps > Zeiss Contax & Zeiss ZM) gear and is more disciplined about staying on > topic?? Sorry, I am just too busy for this list. > > Jan - in freezing Vermont (about to go out an shoot along Lake Champlain > with M6 and Zeiss 2.8/35mm C-Biogon...) > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >