[Leica] M9 or M9.2 or M10 or even S2

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

I'd heard that Larry about the Jaguar maintenance signal to noise ratio at
1:1 I'm not a car guy but I hear they've fixed that now when Ford bought it
and whoever owns it now if not them. And other car companies like BMW had
come out with twelve cylinder versions off and on.
It would be great to be driving down the street shooting an S2 out the
window of  a twelve cylinder car. A modern jag with the bugs worked out as I
hear they are as I do love the styling.
And my tongue hanging out the window too.
I'd smell colors.



Mark


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Mark William Rabiner



> From: Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 17:00:58 -0400
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M9 or M9.2 or M10 or even S2
> 
> Mark writes:
> "I've held one (S2) in my hands. I've looked through it. I made it go
> "click"
> 
> numerous times. On two different occasions. It was like another thing which
> 
> happened to me once which I never forgot. Twelve cylinders. I sat in a
> 
> passenger seat of a Jaguar once in 1970. Never got over that."
> 
> - - - - -
> 
> Mark,
> 
> The big mistake with 1950 through 1980 Jaguars was actually owning one. 
> I've
> owned three, a beautiful sexy bright red Jag XK 140MC, a slightly used blue
> E type, and a 3.4 sedan (the kind Inspector Morris drove). All were
> wonderful to drive, at least for a while, but took at least one hour of
> maintenance for each hour of driving. No fooling. The two sports cars spent
> as much time in the shop as they did on the road - and it was a Jaguar
> dealership so I guess the mechanics knew what they were doing. The XK 140
> was probably the worst engineered car I ever owned. Obviously constructed
> for British roads, the speedometer was in front of the passenger seat, the
> slightly angled engine intruded into the diver's foot well, and the
> adjustable steering wheel adjusted to all the wrong positions. The engine
> had enough torque to snap the wire spokes on the knock off hub wheels. You
> could hear a "ping" on every rapid acceleration. The wheel hub knock offs
> tended to freeze in position and required a sledge hammer to budge. The 
> rack
> and pinion steering developed terminal looseness and the car wandered all
> over the highway. One wheel brake failed and was could not be repaired by
> the mechanics. For several years I had three wheel braking on the car. 
> Thank
> God for wide California roads. It would have been lethal on narrow Engish
> lanes. The E type had similar problems but I kept it less than a year,
> selling it to someone more insane than I at a considerable profit. The 3.4
> sedan was, in my humble opinion, the best car Jaguar ever made if you could
> afford the parts and maintenance. But it was hardly a sporting vehicle.
> 
> 
> I'm saying this to point out that clicking the shutter of an S2 a few times
> and not having it explode in your hands is a scant reason to buy the 
> camera.
> Any more than a ride in the passenger seat of a Jaguar. If you lust for an
> S2 and have the money to spend, go out an buy one. Just let the rest of us
> know the unvarnished truth of owning an untested new design with a minimal
> lens battery, produced by a small company with limited engineering and
> testing resources. Remember "Never be the first by whom the new is tried,
> nor last to cast the old aside."
> 
> So I don't use my 4x5 Speed Graphic anymore.
> 
> Larry Z
> 
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