I'd like to get a new Leica, but I can't afford one. I'd settle for a used one, but I can't afford that either. Thirty years ago I could afford a new one even less. Or a used one even less. My 83-year-old mother told me my late father really, really wanted to buy one in the early 1950s, but he couldn't afford one then or even later in his life. He died being unable to afford one. I will suffer the same fate.
When the inability to purchase something - or even just to dream of purchasing something - becomes a generational thing, it rather softens the "blow" of being told that manufacturing of that thing has ceased. At least my son will not have to suffer a third generation of frustration...
Ken
I can compose and focus my M3 faster than you can focus your wonder af camera, guaranteed.
Hard to believe there aren't any 60 year old dentists or investment brokers buying a new MP to tootle around the cottage with on the weekends...maybe they're busy buying new Harleys.
Anyway, seems like there's nothing to this rumour at the moment.
"It's sometimes better to travel hopefully than to arrive."
No; you cannot.
How do you know?
To call an intrinsic element or characteristic of a design a "design fault" makes no sense. These days a lot of people would say that a camera that needs film has a "design fault".
I can compose and focus my M3 faster than you can focus your wonder af camera, guaranteed.
Because the quotes from the company rep, on the record, are conclusive enough to say so.
They may not be conclusive *enough* for some, but that's not the issue. If nothing else, it will focus attention on the Leica film line which is at least good marketing.
Ken, it doesn't have to be like that. last year, I started a coin jar, and filled that baby up a few times. every time I skipped a coffee, or a meal out, I dropped a few buck in the jar.
just got an M6 in the mail last week....
now for a lens...
Not true! Pat, I am going to start wearing hip boots if you continue posting non-sense like this.
Steve
You beat me to it. I do a lot of gig photography and manual focus does not cut it compared to even a slow old Nikon F4 AF. I have tried using a Leica M6 a few times and the results were dismal. At the risk of lighting another flame, the Leica 90mm lens I have wide open is also no match for the Nikon lens' in this situation. And, lets not get into changing film squeezed up against the barrier with jostling fans all around. I am lucky enough to have been able to buy many different cameras over the years and it's horses for courses as they say. I think it's a bit silly to claim one brand or design is "best" or "better" than the rest, although if I had to choose only one 35mm camera forever, it would not be a Leica.
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