Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. - -- Martin Howard | "Very funny Scotty. Now beam down Interactive Systems Designer | my clothes." email: mvhoward@mac.com | www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +---------------------------------------