[Leica] What if digital hadn't come along?

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

The FM Nikon was just a tad bigger than an OM-1. A very successful camera.
It was Maitani who figured out that if your format was only 24x36mm what's
the point of your camera body weighing more than a twin lens Rolleiflex? And
caught the entire camera industry with its pants down.
Now ironically last week they bring the OM body is back in digital ... With
a puny 4/3's sensor in it.  Yoshihisa Maitani is turning over in his grave.
Or laughing.  Probalby Both.

The Pentax Pentax ME was a tad smaller than an Om-1.
Seemingly exactly the size of a Barnack!
But none ever fell from the sky near me so I could shoot with it.
I was praying to the wrong photo god.

-- 
Mark R.
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/winterdays/


> From: Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 21:49:35 -0600 (CST)
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What if digital hadn't come along?
> 
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> Alan, 
> 
>> Ever try the F100? Bigger than an OM but a lot smaller than the F4/F5.
>> Fabulous viewfinder and compatible with nearly all Nikon FX >lenses. My
>> favorite film SLR.
> 
>> Jim Laird 
> ==============================================================================
> ====================
> I had no reason to.  I only used Nikons at work, where they were 
> state-owned.
> All my SLR equipment was Olympus after I gave my brother my Pentaxes.  I 
> own a
> Nikon F now because my uncle gave me all his hobby equipment before he 
> died.
> Bigger than an OM is too big.
> 
> 
> Alan
> 
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> amr3 at uwm.edu
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
> 
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