Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am on a list waiting for an R8(after buying a R7 on a special, only to find out why 2 weeks later, but that's another story..).....While I have been waiting, I had a long look at the F5 and its "1005 Pixel 3D color matirx meter". Excuse any possible heresey but ---..Any thoughts on the F5's meter vs the R8's?? or the advantages of one or the other? I do have three Leica lenses, a SL and SL2(which I would never part with) to add to the equation.... and now a lower price on the M6? I really do not need autofocus or a 8FPS motor but then you get autobracketing, which I would like, and requires the motor for the R8(more money and worse, weight) I just held a R8 for the first time and it's size was a shock and it didn't seem to fit my hand with the large trapazoid thing on the right, but it also had the new 70-200 zoom which could have skewed my perception..... Any thoughts on the comparative merits on these three great but diffferent models would be appreciated. chip