Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Perhaps you don't get it. Not only is the IIIg a thing of beauty it is also the most hightly refined LTM. The vastly improved viewfinder alone is evidence of this. I have a IIIf and a IIIa as well as a IIf but the the IIIg is by far the best of the lot. Ken Wilcox At 10:56 PM 6/24/99 +0200, you wrote: > >Maybe I don't get it, maybe I just need an aesthetical adjustment, but >I don't understand the hype around the IIIg. I think they are ugly as >sin. Look like a bastardized concoction of left-over spare parts that >someone bolted together in their spare time and slapped chrome on. > >The BD IIIf without self-timer is really good looking, especially with >the wider shutter speed dial. But then it appears someone at Wetzlar >fed the thing steroids in an uncontrolled experiement, and the hideous >result is the IIIg. > >Rather have a black and nickel II or III any day of the week. > > >M. > >-- >Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | >HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just >Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" >E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------ > > - ------------------ Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits LAW LHSA MEA <wilcox@tir.com>