Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The Donatists
From: Martin Howard <mvhoward@mac.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:19:38 -0500

Gaifana@aol.com wrote, in part:
>
> The M5 was flogged and executed.
>

As well it should have been.  Anything *that* butt-ugly doesn't deserve to
survive!  It was an abomination, I tell you!
 
> 
> Suddenly, the Church was divided into two camps. One, the Church of the M-4,
> said that all automation was evil and that it's a slippery slope. "If you
> really care about *images*, you wouldn't need automation; only if you are
> persecuted by inconvenience are you a true follower; there is a certain
> pleasure in inconvenience." The M6 adherents retorted that a little
> automation was a good thing, and it was the spirit and not the letter of the
> law.
> 

Bah!  This is all nonsense!  The LTMs are the only *real* Leicas.  The only
cameras true to Oskar Barnack's original vision.  All this winding lever,
brightline VF, integrated RF crap is just a cop-out by the weak-minded
because they haven't got the balls to use a REAL camera.

M.

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