Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: E.Welch vs C.Becker - Non Controversial Subject
From: Thomas Kachadurian <kach@freeway.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 20:37:46 -0500

At 11:46 PM 2/2/98 +0800, you wrote:

Some people dream of supermodels, others of riches. In my Dreams there is
an electronic Japanese made body, with a built-in quiet motor like an EOS
A2, Matrix metering, Selectable Auto-bracketing and great matrix flash, and
a 250th flash sync with a rangefinder as good as the M cameras. The dream
comes here: It has an M mount and all my precious Leica glass fits perfectly.

Go ahead, tell me what a loser I am.

Tom


>What difference does it make who designed the body?  You buy into a
>camera system for its lenses.  The camera body is merely a light proof
>box.  Besides, if a Japanese camera company were to have anything to do
>with the R8, my guess is that most of us would be SECRETLY relieved. 
>When was the last time any German company came up with an original all
>German camera design?  Would anyone out there say Kyocera did a poor job
>with Contax SLRs or the G2?  The G2 and the RTS III are proofs that this
>German/Japanese alliance can be a good thing!
>
>Lucien_vD@compuserve.com wrote: