Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/09

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Is the M5 an Edsel?(PRODUCT OF A GOLDEN AGE IN WETZLAR)
From: "Andrew S Jordan" <andrewsjordan@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 18:36:34 -0500
 
>
> I am thinking of  purchasing a working M5 but I've been told, by a
> professional photographer, that "the M5 is the Edsel of Leica".  Is this
> so?
Paul, BD and others:

I do not want to go into detail about the advantages of the M5 over the M6
as I have done so in previous posts. But it suffices to say that the size,
shape, and weight differential over the M6 is minuscule in comparison with
the same characteristics of the R8 over the R7(6,5,4). And I haven't heard
anybody on the LUG considering the R8 an "Edsel" or any other overdesigned
and ungainly automobile of the past.
Simply put I consider the M5 and SL2 as the last great cameras from the
1970's which were the GOLDEN AGE of lens and camera design as well as
production in WETZLAR.

regards, Andrew Jordan( owner of both a M6 and M5)