Re: News from PMA - MZ-S and other stuff

[Mike Johnston]

Frantisek wrote:

> (why Leica made such ugly and big slr when their rf cameras are so cute
> and small is out of my imagination... R8 also looks like it's been made by
> a designer on a bad trip, imho. I much prefer the early German hardware
> (like Contax S, Contaxes, Leicas #,M3,...) to those strange ugly R8 slrs.


Frantisek,
I totally agree, which is one reason I got chased off the Leica User Group.
If you think it's bad saying anything bad about Pentax here, trying saying
something negative about Leica over there. They set upon you like a pack of
dogs. <g>

When the original designer of the Leica, Oskar Barnack, considered adding a
rangefinder to his original design, he was adamant that it not increase the
size of the camera unecessarily. Leica lost sight of that principle with the
R8. Although, really, the whole point of Leica R is that wonderful lens
line. 

--Mike

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