On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > I think lots of cameras have been tagged with the 'poor man's Leica' > motto. I've certainly heard the Canonet, Konica Auto S2 and Yashica > Electro 35 referred to in that way. I have one of the latter - it's > certainly an impressive beast but having never used any Leica, I can't > say if it deserves the tag.
The only "poor man's Leica" I loved were my Leica IIf and IIc which I bought along with their Elmar 3.5cm f/3.5 and Elmar 5.0cm f/3.5 lenses in 1969 for $99, complete. I was a poor high school student, I was barely a man (14 yo at the time :-), and I liked them so much more than my mom's Retina IIIc. ]'-) The Yashica Electro 35 was a darn good camera however. Not a great rangefinder (better than the peephole junk on the Leica II ...!) but easy to load and a fine lens. When I was the chief of the photo staff in high school a year or so later, I bought six of them for the staff to use. They made a lot of great photographs. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- 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.
