Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Someone mentioned Minox
From: Robinsnes@aol.com
Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 19:08:41 EDT

The quality is superb. I have 16x20's taken with the Minox GT-E and its 
predecessors. I have owned five over the last 20 years. You really want the 
GT-E unless you like the camera to make decisions or are not completely 
familiar with wanting to control the camera yourself. The other model has an 
amateur setting and it also has auto Dx settings, which remove the ability to 
use the ASA dial to control the camera as completely. The quality will not 
show itself on any monitor. Please accept that it is excellent. How would a 
monitor indicate to you the quality of a lens anyway? That makes no sense. 
As far as I know, the camera is imported by Leitz, but it is made by Minox. 
They have made quality optics since at least the late 1930s. It is truly a 
photographer's camera...exposes chromes as well as prints with excellent 
fidelity. Buy one, you'll like it. It is also relatively inexpensive in this 
day of microchip wonders.

Roger Skully
robinsnestphotography.com

Replies: Reply from "Simon Lamb" <s_lamb@compuserve.com> (Re: [Leica] Someone mentioned Minox)