Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]advice on how to proceed. the new model GR1s has a shade. everylittlebit helps they say so you could get the GR!s with a shade.in view of other troubles mentioned a better solution would be 2, a wig and a brandi sports bra. each turnon switch would be perfectly aligned with a nipple. with deep breath you skip b-cup, go directly to c, avoid the disparaging remark below.ralph > From: "Bob Walkden" <bobwalkden@hotmail.com> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:12:49 BST > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: GR1 erection(was: Street photography) > > Hi, > > no. The GR-1 is considerably more than your average p&s. You can use > aperture-priority on it, you can do hyperfocal point focusing, and you can > control the flash in relatively sophisticated ways not just on/off. > > My problem with it (I've had one for a couple of years) is the shutter lag > time and its lack of reliability. The motor on mine developed a strange > wheezing, asthmatic sort of noise and I noticed only this weekend a bit of > the cover had broken off by the battery compartment latch, which means the > batteries cover is now half-open all the time, so basically it's buggered. > > btw, I'm not very impressed by the size of your erection! :o) > > Cheers, > > Bob > > >> From: Christer Almqvist <christer@almqvist.net> >> >> OK the lens is very good, but it is still a P&S thing. It is not under your >> control, except that you can turn off the flash _permanently_ by flipping a >> switch, not pushing little rubbery knobs to get down to the third level of >> some menue, and then have to redo the whole thing every time you turn on >> the camera. That's what I like about the GR-1. The switch, and the lens. >> But I hate the little rubber button that turns on the camera. And it turns >> itself on in your trousers pocket. It must look like a very rapid erection >> to the uninformed spectator when the lens starts moving out. Is this how >> Ralph got started on his nudes? If so, please advise how to proceed. >> Anyway, I almost always have room for the M6 with a Summicron in my jacket >> pocket. Unobtrousive. >> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com >