Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M camera NOW R camera ?
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:10:11 -0400

Dan States Grumpily sang the praises of the R8-9, concluding...

"If you don't like the idea of a manual focus SLR, fine, get something
else,

but to claim the R8-9 cameras are anything less than the very best and
most

capable optical instruments in 35mm photography is ignoring fact."

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Which makes me ask why people feel compelled to write such foolishness
as that found in the final phrase? Had he just summed up what are to him
the cameras' virtues, and concluded, "If you don't like the idea of a
manual focus SLR, fine, get something else," no one could argue with
him. But to state something like "but to claim the R8-9 cameras are
anything less than the very best and most
capable optical instruments in 35mm photography is ignoring fact" is,
sorry Dan, but just plain silly.

"Most capable?" Where's the autofocus? Where are the 35 1.4 and 28 1.4
lenses? Where's the 10 fps motor? Where are any number of features that
many, many, many - nay, countless - professional and non-professional
photographers consider essential?

This doesn't mean that the Rs aren't the perfect cameras for people who
don't want the features the Rs "lack." But it does mean that it makes no
sense to claim that they are the "most capable" without adding "for MY
purposes." ;-)

B. D.

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