Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]DonjR43198@aol.com wrote: > It would be enlightening if you would list each plastic part in the various M > cameras that you listed above as well as the M-6. > > Don I beg to differ. I would find nothing enlightening about this. The whole modern obession with plastic versus metal is just so much more boring irrelevant nonsense. Metal cameras don't take better pictures than plastic cameras. I dropped an all metal olympus OM-1 once, out of my back pack. It was done and had to be rebuilt. I've dropped my plastic Olympus Stylus Epic point and shoot out of my back pack to concrete probably 3 or 4 times. It still works. Intelligent use of plastics has allowed cameras to have fast built in motor drives and other features while not paying much more in terms of size and weight. Consider that the Canon Rebel 2000 actually with a lens actually weighs less than a leica M body, and is smaller. I suppose it is certainly less jewel like and arguably less robust, but very few people (i.e. the pros) use their cameras hard enough that it would really matter. So, I'm wondering, can we stop obsessing over this yet? Pete