Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- --------------5810DA4D093D7563C1C53B6D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > I also traded Nikon for Leica. For some reason I found the R7 extremely > difficult to focus and begrudgingly traded in all my R lenses--which I > stupidly bought just on Leica' reputation--and bought an M6 instead. It's > compact, quiet, beautiful to use and it takes outstanding images. For > travelling especially it's wonderful. What I miss is the ability to use it > with action, close-up or telephoto photograpy. For landscape and people it > can't be beat. Hope this helps. Good luck. > You found the R7 difficult to focus after coming from a Nkon system??? Thats the first time I hear that, but I guess everyone has their own experience. I find all my R's incredibly easy to focus. For landscape photography, I would think its a close call between R & M, IMO the R would win. for people and street photographs, the M certainly wins. just my .02 Euros worth - -- Regards, Alexander http://www.mediadyne.gr/photos - --------------5810DA4D093D7563C1C53B6D Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <blockquote TYPE=CITE> <pre>I also traded Nikon for Leica. For some reason I found the R7 extremely difficult to focus and begrudgingly traded in all my R lenses--which I stupidly bought just on Leica' reputation--and bought an M6 instead. It's compact, quiet, beautiful to use and it takes outstanding images. For travelling especially it's wonderful. What I miss is the ability to use it with action, close-up or telephoto photograpy. For landscape and people it can't be beat. Hope this helps. Good luck.</pre> </blockquote> <p>You found the R7 difficult to focus after coming from a Nkon system??? Thats the first time I hear that, but I guess everyone has their own experience. I find all my R's incredibly easy to focus. For landscape photography, I would think its a close call between R & M, IMO the R would win. for people and street photographs, the M certainly wins. <p>just my .02 Euros worth <p>-- <br>Regards, <br>Alexander <p><A HREF="http://www.mediadyne.gr/photos">http://www.mediadyne.gr/photos</A> <br> </html> - --------------5810DA4D093D7563C1C53B6D--