Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sun, 10 December 2000, Simon Stevens wrote: > <SNIP> > Anyway, my question is this: What do LUGGERS think of as "old fashioned" > in a camera? Does simplicity denote old fashinedness? Styling? Quality > of construction? How do you evaluate lenses? If they are highly > perfected aspherical fixed focal lenght lenses, is that old fashioned > because they aren't zooms? > > Simon Stevens My frame of reference is SLR 'cuz that's what I use. Pre-set apertures are old-fashioned, as is a non-instant-return mirror. I'll even stick my neck out and declare that the Leicaflex Standard's non-TTL light meter qualifies. OTOH my contemporaries would say that about my SL's lack of battery-dependant features, about the wildly inacurate mechanical shutter and because it doesn't have manual overrides for the camera's decisions. Definitely the lack of a huge button-and-switch-laden 28-300 zoom with its own area code and proprietary operating system is old-fashioned. A more realistic concept of old-fashioned is whatever features a camera has or lacks that prevents me from getting the pictures I want, where those deficiencies have been resolved in chronologically newer cameras. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/