Re: [Leica] Tourists using Leicas

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

Leica's are artist/pro tools, at least for the folks
who actually use them.  You won't see many
tourists with 6x6 cameras or view cameras either.

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen <BDColen@earthlink.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 10:40 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] Tourists using Leicas


> I saw a Nikon F Photomic--that
>> warhorse of the 60s--in Akrotiri. (Do you suppose it had been uncovered
in
>> the ruins there?)
>>
>Hey! Let's show a little respect here. ((:-)) As a user of an F -
>non-photomic - along with an M6, I might point out that in terms of their
>evolution and features, it might be argued that Fs and Ms are the reflex
and
>rangefinder equivalent of each other - dependable for decades of hard use,
>all-mechanical (with or without meter), mechanical shutter with top speed
of
>1/1000, very or relatively low sync speed, all metal construction....
>
>
>