Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:12:02 -0800
References: <B8FF866A.1F5C6%joseph@yao.com>

>Right you are...It was really an SP camera, not an AE, despite Canon hanging
>that name on it....And how could I have been off by four years? Good God! So
>it really only took Leica 26 years, not, as I inferred, 30 years, to come up
>with essentially the same degree of "automation" Canon introduced to its
>line in...1976.;-)
>B. D.


Which statement is based on the presumption that automation is the
logically desirable end in camera evolution.

I tend to look at it from this angle: Leica managed to hold out for 26
years before they felt obligated to automate the M.

Guy
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