Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I bet there are a lot of twenty-somethings out there who wouldn't pick up >the latest Canon Rebel if you paid them, but who would seriously consider >taking up photography with a funky looking LTM camera, particularly upon >learning that they can use lenses as old at 1924 on them! I'm not in my early twenties any more, but I bought my first Leica when I was 18. It was a IIIa and it was love at first sight. A year later I got my current M4-P ditching my Nikons in the process. That was twelve years ago and I am as uninterested in gimmicky electronic cameras now as I was then. Too big, too fiddly and too much bother to learn how to use. Unfortunatly this criticism includes most of the R models and especially the R8. If I wanted to carry a camera that huge, I'd just use my Hasselblad. Leicas are meant to be small, that's the whole reason Oskar invented them in the first place! Simon Stevens