Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]@@@@@@@@@ I have an R6.2 and it is a great body that has worked like a charm for 5 years. Having put more than a thousand roles of film through it, I have never once felt handicapped by not having continuous shutter speeds. Instead, the body offers a key advantage. It will function at all shutter speeds if the meter battery fails. @@@@@@@@@ Bill, This is probably the main point. The limitation in using Aperture priority and the lens wide open, is undoubtedly more a theoretical one than a real concern for most, but there are a small percentage of users, who do seem limited when only full or even half stops are available. When I was in Japan, one of the LUGnuts we went out photographing with, had his camera set to take 3 bracketed shots for every image. Boy did he burn through the film ;-), but he assured me that in this way, he rarely missed a great shot because of exposure. I'm too cheap to burn film at that rate, and my images can afford a bit of culling, but I could see his point -- you would hate to miss that one great shot just because the exposure was that little bit off. In his case, each image was carefully composed, where mine are often "record" shots only. Cheers Alastair Firkin, http://users.netconnect.com.au/~firkin/AGFhmpg.html