Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/05
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Charles Hahn jotted down the following:
> I think using a screw mount Leica can not only be
> cheaper than getting a Bessa, it also gives you a real
> education in Photography.
More likely to give you a real education in how far camera technology has
come over the past 60-70 years. Sure, we can wax romantic about the glory
of screwmounts all we like, but the fact of the matter is that they're a
gigantic pain in the arse to load, expensive to repair, likely to need
repair (or at least CLA) right after being bought, don't have a built in
meter, possess a viewfinder which is about as bright as the average garden
snail, and are more likely to provide you with a real education in anger
management than anything to do with photography.
I had a lovely black Leica II from 1933 which I tried using as a camera,
because I had romantic notions of 1930's photography. After finally
realizing that cameras are tools rather than items of jewelry, that I was
living in the 21st century, and that no matter how hard I imagined it I'd
never be HCB, I eBayed the little bugger and got a set of converter rings
for my LTM lenses which now sit on my M6TTL, when not doing time on a
Bessa-L.
M.
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