Probably Leica's idea of a consumer point & shoot camera. The assumed
market demographics said you weren't supposed to buy this one. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 7/20/2011 4:19 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I know what you mean. Back in my film days I once bought a Leica
> Minilux. Wonderful compact camera, with a great 40mm lens. But after
> a couple of months I sold it. Why? Because the camera had no way to
> permanently turn off the flash. Every time you had turned off and
> later turned it back on, it switched to autoflash. To turn it to my
> preferred setting of no flash under any circumstances I had to press
> a small button 6 or 7 times to cycle through the various stupid flash
> modes before getting to "no flash". The quality of the camera in
> other respects could not make up for this deficiency.
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> Cheers, nathan
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> On Jul 20, 2011, at 5:58 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
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>> I'm not trying to put myself up on a pedestal and think I'm
>> superior to the big heads at the camera companies, but I do have
>> one question.
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>> Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to RESET the
>> camera every time it goes to sleep and wakes up?
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>> I like my DMC-L1, but it's lttle things like that which really
>> toast my goat.
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