Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M6TTL and M7 Clues
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:05 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)

Eric Welch wrote:

> The future? Something has occurred to me, maybe I'm a bit slow or
> something, but heck. All this abuse of the M6TTL is getting could
be
> more
> disappointment than anything else. All the frenzy for several
months
> before
> the M6TTL was introduced was filled with speculations about the new
M
> camera coming, with all these great new whiz-bang features. And
then
> look
> what we get. Leica made no promises. But a lot of folks seem to be
> reacting
> like a blind date gone bad.

Well some of us are waiting until we see the thing before we react
one way or the other. Personally I don't understand some of the
objections, it's not as if fitting TTL flash metering suddenly makes
it *compulsory* to use flash, after all.

The new digital circuitry should stay calibrated longer, of course,
not that this has been a problem with the old model AFAICT. It also
increases the sensitivity of the meter, which I would have expected
to be greeted with enthusiasm by the Noctilux/75-Summilux brigade.

David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk
David.Morton@openconsulting.co.uk
(+44) 171 917 6272