Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/06

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Aperture Priority M6+Leica Medium Format
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:33:10 -0400

Bob - I agree with what you want, but don't agree that it has to be noisy.
The Hexar is pretty damn quiet, and I suspect that if Leica made it a
priority, they could make an even quieter high-speed, electronic shutter M,
with or without autowind/rewind....

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of
> Bmceowen@aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 10:23 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Aperture Priority M6+Leica Medium Format
>
>
>
> In a message dated sometime, someone writes:
>
> >I wouldn't mind an AE M6, but I much prefer the silent
> >> operation of a cloth shutter.
>
> Oh please! If we're going to dream lets do it right. I don't know
> about the
> world but I, for one, need a M6 with AE operation, TTL flash AND
> 1/250 synch.
> Let's go with the metal vertical shutter and get a camera we can
> shoot flash
> in the daylight with. All of us don't have the luxury of only
> shooting during
> the 30-minute "David Alan Harvey" window of light, you know . . .
>
> Bob (wants a noisy Leica) McEowen
>