Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You can't go home again. LTMs may have seemed easy-to-use back then, but 30 years of being exposed to really easy-to-use cameras has changed our perceptions. Screw mount cameras are torture. Even an updated camera like the Bessa R is a pain to put a lens on. Allan Chandos Michael Brown wrote: > If you *want* to use an LTM, you'll figure out how to get on with it. > I used LTMs exclusively for over twenty years--sold my M3 (stupidly) in > College because I had to, and replaced it with the (then) much cheaper > IIIfs. It never occurred to me that the VF was "squinty" or otherwise > awkward. I *had* to live with it. The diopter adjustment on the IIIf > makes it easy to sharpen the rf patch, and I didn't trash my glasses > trying to see through the framing window. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html