> > > > I was in my local Leica pusher's today, dropping the M8 off > to have the > > shutter release / on-off switch fixed, and putting the M4-2 > up for sale. I > > was very tempted by a beautiful 1929 Leica 1 at a > surprisingly reasonable > > price. I chatted to the evil person who tempts innocent > photographers with > > these and he told me it was a model A which had been > converted at some time > > in the past to a model C. Lovely camera. I'm still tempted. > > > > > http://www.crestock.com/blog/icon-of-the-week/the-leica-model- > i-24.aspx > > I know that what I'm about to say is trite and meaningless and that > things are not the same as they were and never will be (hell, that's > never stopped me before!), but I wonder how many cameras made today > will still be fully operational in 80 year's time? Not just fully > operational, but capable of taking images of the highest quality? > > Looks like that would be a fun purchase, Bob! > > cheers, > frank > > ps: does it have a live view screen on the back? >
As a matter of fact, it does. I looked through that thing on the top left, next to the metal knob at the end, and I could see everything that was happening in front of me! Leica have always been very good at conversions. I wonder if they'd do an M8 conversion on it. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
