Last paragraph correction, "I'll lie back.."
There are some programs that will correct this to some extent. The bellows of the News photographers cameras (Graflex) of old allowed compensation for this by tilting the lens. I can't cite specific photo programs that will correct the parralax of an existing image but there are some that are much less expensive than PhotoShop.
Beautiful, the Rolls Royce of film rangefinders. When the M3 came out, I bought it with a range of lenses (Leica, of course) and other Leitz accessories. I was happy as a clam until I got married, had a baby, no job and dr's bills for such. I ended up selling my entire Leica equipment to pay for my newborn (whom I should have named "Leica"), but my wife insisted on the name Erica). I have never been able to afford another Leica as they got increasingly expensive, so settled for a variety of Japanese cameras over the years. Am now using a digital Nikon but do not do a lot of camera work anymore - just hit-or-miss snapshot photography - sigh! Enjoy, and become really familiar with this jewel and sell your house or wife to an Arab before you part with this. (That is a tongue-in-cheek comment in case you took me literally)
Depending on the year and model with the big block V8 engine, yes it could (!) although it took a little time accelerating from a stop because of the weight. I am an old codger and have owned many of those old boats. Cadillacs, Chryslers, Packards. They were not sports cars or underweight "muscle" cars but TOURING cars, designed for fast highway speed and COMFORT. Unlike the tethered (seat belted, airbag, jellybean styling) crap of today. However, you did pay a price in fuel efficiency.
Absolutely the most cogent assessment of the non-entity I have ever read. May I quote you?
londonfire wrote:
50-800 and 2.8? I think I'd have to sell a car or two to afford that one.
My mouth is watering but my car isn't worth near enough to sell for it for it.
Before I sold my Leica gear to pay for my daughter's birth I used my Leica 125mm lens at open apertures for portraits. The 50mm lens, or shorter is not a portrait lens. I now use Nikon (still can't afford Leica) and am quite pleased with it's quality.