Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji building an M
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:55:58 -0500

Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote, in part:
>  Face it,
> the reason we use the M is not the camera, its the lenses which have
> transcended time with their wonderful resolution capabilities.
>

Nope, sorry Peter, but you're naïve inductivist method of investigation
doesn't work.  I use Leica M cameras for the camera as much as I do for the
lenses.  It's small, quiet, jewel-like, fast, direct, engaging, dependable.
It connects me to the photographic process and the things I shoot, rather
than distanceing me from them.  I value that.

However, that doesn't mean that it might not be interesting to *complement*
the existing line of M cameras, much in the way Cosina has *complemented*
the existing line of M lenses.  I agree that an M built by Fuji would be an
interesting proposition.

M.

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