Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The cloth focal plane shutter is the essence of what the M camera and what Leica is all about since the Leica I of 1925. You can't mess with perfection. I told Herr Cohn this when I first met him at last year's PMA and he seemed to get the point. Certainly Stefan Daniel, then M product manager and now overall product manager, understands this. If you take away the whisper quiet cloth focal plane shutter, what do you have? Another me too camera. Might as well have Konica or Canon or any other Japanese manufacturer make the M camera, as you have taken away its soul. Would I like to have a CL2 camera with a vertically traveling metal bladed shutter, higher sync, AE, etc., as a companion to my M6's? You bet, but don't take away the M6! And then there are the lenses. Collectively, some of the world's greatest glass for one of the world's greatest cameras. But that's a whole other story. LONG LIVE THE M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bill Rosauer