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

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 15:40:53 -0400

And it still isn't automated...;-)

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Guy Bennett
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:12 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 at a Bris


>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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