Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The M6 Fugue
From: Bmceowen@aol.com
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:09:52 EST
 
>>You are missing the point. The worst thing that could happen would be
>to get 
>>what you're dreaming about. If Solms bestowed an electronic M on you,
>it 
>>would be bogus. Why? Because it would not be manual. It would lose the
>
>>tactile quality that makes the M the precision camera system it is. It
>would 
>>be an assembled camera, not a hand finished camera. That loss would show
>in 
>>the negatives and prints.



Does anyone believe they should have stopped the SLR design with the 
Leicaflex SL2? How come it's OK for the SLR line to try to keep up with the 
times but not the rangefinder line?

Bob (waiting for the "right" AE M-camera) McEowen