Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting you list all the cameras that would be the cream of the crop for the "old timers" crowd. Yes, they are proven but passe. I mean, how many pros are really using the old Nikon Fs these days? Few I would think. Peter K > ---------- > From: Donal Philby[SMTP:donalphilby@earthlink.net] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Friday, March 26, 1999 3:54 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica & Contax test > > > At 02:13 PM 3/26/99 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > > > >...A camera with the long tradition and intelligent design evolvement > such > > >as the Leica M deserves more than a cheap brushoff. > > >What other cameras belong in this category? > > >The Rolleiflex TLR > > >Speed Graphic > > >Deardorf > > >Nikon F > > >? > > >Cameras that evolved to near perfection but had that perfection built > > >into its first inception. > > Let's not forget Linhof, who makes a version of the Speed Graphic style > camera still today that is the equal to Leica in sheer beauty of > construction and operation. It has been in production, I'll bet, far > longer than the speed graphic, or virtually any other camera, and > virtually unchanged. And if you haven't used a Linhof, of whatever > style, you are in for a treat, though Sinar and the recent Arca Swiss > are in the same company, though a bit more fussy of design. > > donal > > -- > Donal Philby > San Diego > http://www.donalphilby.com > >