Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:21 PM 9/14/96 -0400, you wrote: >It may be that it happens mostly after I've used a slow speed like >1/15th, although I'm not absolutely sure. Shutter speeds seem to be >perfectly accurate when I shoot chromes, and I don't think there's >anything wrong with the bodies, but I'm curious about the sound. >Anybody have any ideas? If my expreience is any use, it's the timer on the shutter. On long shutter releases with a mechanical camera, it needs something to time the exposure. >P.S. I predict the new R8 will be roundly hated by the American > press, who will say that it is as ugly as a Saab 99 (I kind of > liked those cars). After the EOS1? No way. It's much cooler looking than that! >P.P.S. I wish Leica would concentrate on some more wide lenses for the > SLRs as opposed to working on being the manufacturer with the > most long lenses in its lineup. I would like a really wide > rectilinear lens that didn't cost a jillion skillion dollars > like that Zeiss 15mm. They'd have to go a long way to bean Nikon for sure. What wide angle lenses do you want? Like a 24 f/2 or 28 1.4? I could agree there. But they have always been really behind in the long line, I think it's about time they compete with Nikon and Canon and leave Contax in the dust! =========== Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR Computers can never replace human stupidity