RE: M use

[Tore Larsen <tore@cs.uit.no>]

Hi,

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Oddmund Garvik [SMTP:garvik@groupenet.com]
Sent:	Friday, 25 July, 1997 14:22
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	Re: M use

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I am fond of high end point & shoot cameras, as you know. Leica introduced
a bastard of a Minilux some time ago. A good lens mounted on a bulky and
clumsy camera, with a useless viewfinder. A miserable product which has
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Oddmund

I bought my wife a Minilux a while ago. Thanks partly to the viewfinder she now 
takes much better pictures than she did previously - included those taken with 
my Contax point & shoot.

The "small image" viewfinder on the Minilux makes the framing of the picture 
stand out so that the composition of the picture becomes obvious. With the 
larger viewfinder image on the Contax she was more prone to focusing her sight 
on the part of the image she was concerned about, forgetting about frames and 
composition.

I prefer the slightly rounded shape of my Contax to the bulkier shape of her 
Minilux. I think the Minilux gives better pictures though.



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Tore