[Leica] Re: New Zeiss Ikon

[frank.dernie at btinternet.com (FRANK DERNIE)]

Don't miss it BD, I used a S3 (and SP) and in use they
are nowhere close to an M Leica. The S3 does not have
parallax corrected frames either.
Frank

 --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Dream on, Mark. Feature for feature, capability for
> capability, M3 v S3,
> the S3 - as a body - would win hands down. But this
> is one on which
> great minds will clearly NEVER agree! :-)
> (My biggest single photo equipment regret is that I
> didn't ever own an
> S3, and that I don't own one today. ;-) )
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org]
> On Behalf Of
> Mark Rabiner
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:22 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: New Zeiss Ikon
> 
> 
> On 10/3/04 5:03 PM, "B. D. Colen"
> <bdcolen@earthlink.net> typed:
> 
> > Mark R wrote...
> > "Your statement last night that Nikon rangefinder
> cameras were 
> > superior or more innovative I think most right
> minded people would 
> > find bizarre. "
> > 
> > The only people who would find it bizarre, Mark,
> are people who are 
> > emotionally attached to Leica Ms. The Nikon S3 was
> an innovative 
> > rangefinder, way ahead of the M3. I am absolutely
> convinced that had 
> > Nikon stayed in the rangefinder business, Leica
> would have gone under 
> > decades ago.
> > 
> I think if you asked 1000 non emotional "experts" or
> some such which was
> THE rangefinder camera. Was or IS.... 4 would say
> Contax. 3 would say
> Nikon. 2 would say Canon. And 991 would say Leica.
> 
> The superiority of the Leica rangefinder system
> doesn't get a lot of
> flack.
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> http://rabinergroup.com/
> 
> 
> 
> 
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