Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Leica prototype
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:39:29 -0400

Dr. Black Tape Wonders:

With all the talk about how to "improve" the world's best interchangeable
lens rangefinder camera, why the interest in a higher flash sync? After all:

1. One of the major uses/advantages of the Leica is its use in low/available
light - which negates the use of flash;
2. A higher flash sync would in all likelihood require a new/noisier
shutter - defeating the purpose of the M;
3. There are already any number of incredibly good flash systems available
from N, C - end even from L, if you don't need a motor drive. The world
needs another high-speed synch and fill-flash the way Dr. Black Tape needs a
Red Dot.

If they want to "improve" the M, they should eliminate the flare in the
otherwise excellent viewfinder, give the camera the kind of viewfinder
magnification system that Canon pioneered long before the birth of many
LUGers, and add a spot meter option to an otherwise mediocre metering
system.

But that's just Dr. Black Tape's wish list, and doesn't mean anything more
than that.
:-)


- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Mark
Rabiner
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 2:21 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Leica prototype


Andre Jean Quintal wrote:
><snip>
I agree with you Andre it is not an issue of changing the M6 but sending
up some other flags and see which fly. One of them could hit and support
the company so it can continue with its noble classical engineering. I'm
not quoting you here but I think most of this thought is shared.
Mark Rabiner