Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/28

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Subject: [Leica] Re: R8 design, Erwins design review
From: Larry Kopitnik <kopitnil@mra-inc.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 16:41:32 -0500

>>>>>>>>>>
Seems Mr. Giugiaro knows some things Mr. Meinzer should learn. The R8
design is awfull, the most ugliest piece of photographic equipment I've
ever seen.
<<<<<<<<<<

I'd have tought such comments in this group were sacrilege. But I couldn't
agree more.

I want to like the R8. For those whose hands it fits, its capabilities are
wonderful. Its viewfinder is second to none. But the camera's overt
chunkiness spreads my not-all-that-small fingers to the point of cramping
after holding it a relatively short time. In my hands, the camera is an
ergonomic debacle.

Two words I could not apply to the R8's design are "ergonomic" and
"attractive". But those same two words are ones I'd attach to an M6 in a
second.

Larry