I had a similar thought Frank. As I get older, I lust less for sex and more for Leicas.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of frank theriault Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 10:59 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT: S2... On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > I arranged my morning in such a way that by the time I'd done everything I > had to do I was so near the new Leica Store in London that it would have > been foolish not to drop in... > > What a fool I was to do that! > > I played with an S2 and an M9 and now I have to win the lottery, or start > mugging rich old ladies. > > The S2 is a beautiful camera with a lovely minimalist design. A perfect fit > for my hand, surprisingly light for its size, but still exuding pure > quality. Very well balanced with a 70mm lens. I'll never be able to afford > one, so there's no point in thinking about it. > > The M9 is what the M8 should have been. The little annoyances seem to have > been fixed, it's 5g lighter than the M8 but I thought that was noticeable. > It's quieter, the shutter release is better, doesn't need the IR filters, > 35mm-sized frame, better in low light. Lovely camera. I have to find > sh*tloads of money now... I wish I smoked so I could give up and use the > money to buy the camera. > > I shot 16 frames with it on my own SD card but don't have time to process > them today. Will post some this weekend to get an idea of quality. > > The Leica Store is great. It's intended as a showcase rather than for > selling - they don't want to compete with their dealers. The idea is to let > people come in and play with the toys. That, of course, is a sucker punch. > Once you've played with them you don't want to give them back. > http://www.leica-storemayfair.co.uk/ Why don't you go to a Leica list and talk about this stuff! This is a Pentax list, not a Leica list! If I want to read about Leicas and Leica Stores and S2s I'll do it somewhere else, but I shouldn't have this stuff rammed down my throat on this forum. Where the hell's the moderator here? Delete this thread immediately! *************** Oh yeah, there's no moderator. And it ~is~ a damned nice looking camera. And I ~do~ wish we had a Leica Store here in Toronto. All right then, carry on... cheers, frank (tongue firmly planted in cheek) ;-) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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. -- 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.
