Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stephen Gandy: >>>Interestingly, we are having this discussion because Leica has made a very honest attempt to keep the old standards while playing by the new rules.<<< Hear, hear. Long may they prosper. (Ignacio Lopez at the gate or nay.) Look at a comparable example: compare a Pentax Spotmatic F (now there was a camera with a durable chrome finish! You hardly ever--well, seldom ever--see one even today that doesn't look burnished and clean, many looking almost new) and a Pentax ZX-5N. Not to knock the ZX-5N, but there is a lot more difference between those two cameras than there is between an M4 and an M6. Leica keeps the faith. I would just love it if there were _one_ "classic" SLR built today that was very similar to the Spotmatic and just as well made. Just one. Of course I'd also love it if Leica made a commemorative IIIf or IIIg with an M6-style meter. Maybe I'm wierd. <g> - --Mike