[rollei_list] Re: "different types of black boxes" (was: OT / prove it !)

--- Douglas Shea <dshea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This can be said for many cameras. Having owned an
> M3 which I later gave to
> my Dad I can say I derive much greater pleasure from
> using my Contax I, II,
> and IIa cameras that have been restored by Henry
> Scherer then I ever did
> from the Leica, and I prefer the Zeiss lenses. The
> same can be said for the
> Alpas I use; quality and "joy" in handling that puts
> Leica to
> shame...Leica's are nice but that's about all.
> Highly over-rated in my
> opinion; if I were offered one I'd gladly accept it
> -- I'd love to make
> another gift to my Dad.
> 
> Doug

Which just goes to show that we're not all the same. I
much prefer my Leica IIf and IIIf to my Contax IIIa -
even though the Contax is better engineered, better
featured and uses better lenses.

Nick

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