Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ladies and gentlemen I have an announcement to make: I like Leicas. It's not rational. But all this justifying using a certain make of cameras which comes around again and again seems pretty futile to me. I think by now all the bases have been covered! If you like them, use them. If not, that's OK. Moi, j'adore - as someone wrote elsewhere. I certainly couldn't be taking the pictures I'm taking at the moment with any other camera - and I'm not talking aesthetics here. Anyway, surely since we all meet here on the LUG, we've all already decided we like them? Do we have to justify it to each other all the time? To our bank managers maybe, to our wives (although mine has about three times as much gear as I have - nikon), to our children who we are depriving of their college education - but to each other? As a more constructive note, Tom's rapidwinder has been on one of my bodies (alas only one) for the last couple of months and it has transformed its useability. It isn't quite as smooooooth as some make it out to be - maybe just my model - but there's no other way I could work so fast and unobtrusively in situations where these are required features. Thanks Tom. I'm putting myself down right now for two of your handles and another rapidwinder - please make them soon! Rob. Robert Appleby and Sue Darlow Via Bellentani 36 41100 Modena Italy Tel/fax [39] 059 303436