Re: Mike's new column

[Joe Wilensky]

Hey, Mike, maybe I missed it, but have you handled a really nice MX? I know 
that former PDML contributor Shel Belinkoff had an LX or two for a long 
time and thought he didn't care for the MX because he had tried a real 
beater one once, but when he finally tried a spiffy sample, he was won over 
-- especially since the MX is apparently much quieter than the LX.

Joe

At 01:13 PM 2/23/03 -0600, you wrote:
> Perhaps here's a clue: I had a run
> of getting an LX, having its shutter sound slowly but surely drive me nuts,
> selling the LX, then thinking I'd made a mistake, getting another one (or
> two), and then repeating the same cycle.
Tom,
All I can say is "oh, no."
<g>

I've been through that cycle a time or three myself, with various bits of
kit. (I owned a Minolta CLE about three times.) There are just some things
that are so close to "right" that we just keep wanting, willing, the
drawbacks to disappear...
BOTH previous times I've seen an LX, my reaction was, "too loud..."

So maybe I've already learned the lesson I'm about to learn over again.
There are some lessons we have to keep learning over and over again, I
guess.    :-(
--Mike