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From: "Bill Pearce" <bspearce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 23:46:25 -0600
"I was curious as to what you meant by the Mamiya ergonomic challenges."
Winsor,

I'm especially refering to the M6. the one thing about the Bronica is that
it is the current state of the ergonomic art. To change lenses, it closes
the blinds automatically. The other cameras, a few years older, require more
steps.

There is a changing bar, regarding what we are willing to accept in
ergonomics. It is like the article in this week's Sports Illustrated, that
indicates that, as baseball parks or golf course hazards become smaller or
closer, we accept less obstacles in our path to greatness. While some would
consider stop down metering OK, most of us think it archaic. What
photographers considered acceptable, as regards lens changes, with the M6,
is unacceptable today.

I;m not making a value judgement, just trying to relate the cold, harsh
realities of life in teh twentieth century.

Bill Pearce



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