Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Useful camera features?
From: "Joseph Codispoti" <joecodi@thegrid.net>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 09:12:09 -0800

For the same reason that one has a sports car  and a mini van; or a wife and
a girl friend.
Leica RF are the pocket gold watch while sophiticated reflex cameras are the
all-inclusive digital variety.  Both are good but, while one serves in a
more complete way, the other satisfies the senses (and the ego as well).

Doug asks:

>Why is a mechanical, non-motorized camera with a dumb spot meter
>like the Leica M6 considered by many to be the pinnacle of rangefinder
>design, yet to be competetive a 35mm SLR must have multiple metering
>and program modes, motorized film advance and rewind, auto-bracketing,
>sophisticated flash functions and (in many opinions) several auto
>focus modes?