off topic, but ...Re: [Leica] The LUG in a "state"

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

In many forms of racing, manual shifters are used because
of cost and weight.

In F1, they are required.  The issue wasn't whether Ferrari,
Williams, and McLaren could make them work, it was at what
cost.

So, sometimes in racing, something is done because it's the
most effective.  But often (more so over time) its done because
the rules literally forbid anything better or anything different.

So, be wary of analougies to most things in racing.

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: Shawn London <srlondon@ibm.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, May 10, 1998 8:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] The LUG in a "state"


>Nick Hunter wrote:
>
>> I understand shifters are on the way out- even racing cars have
automatics
>now (why does the party
>>always end when I get there?).
>
>Actually, they are more akin to the manual mode Tiptronic transmission
>found in Porsches and other cars.  The car changes gears only when the
>driver shifts, but rather than use a clutch and shifter, formula one
>drivers use paddles mounted on the steering wheel.
>
>The parallel to cameras is that a skilled photographer with a manual
>cameras will make the right decisions on his or her own.  They will know
>that they must increase exposure to compensate for backlighting or snow
>without the camera needing to tell them and so forth.  Regardless of the
>camera's jazzy extra functions, you are still picking simply focus,
>aperture, and shutter speed.
>
>