Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Simplicity" or just lack of features? It seems to me that Rolfe's query points up 1 situation where the Contax G2 (or Hexar RF, or any camera w/a separate AE lock) is superior to the M7 & where the M6 (or any manual camera) isn't that much harder to use. - --------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:12:45 -0400 From: "faneuil" <leica_korenman@hotmail.com> Subject: re: [Leica] M7 Photo Message-ID: <OE75OUIHNkjgJKVApwO00001b2a@hotmail.com> References: <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNCEGHJOAA.red735i@earthlink.net> <002201c2207e$e966ed00$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net> <98780266.1025460066@berkshire.ldp.com> Good point - and true. Only workaround would be to go to manual and lock in the settings. But hey, the aperture priority is really a joy to use. Coming from a Contax G2, the simplicity is of the M7 is wonderfully freeing. Most of all, I appreciate the quiet shutter (sound of one hand clapping next to the G2) A new M7 owner (first time leica user times one week), Eric - - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rolfe Tessem" <rolfe@ldp.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Photo > > --On Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:41 PM -0700 Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > > Frank Filippone wrote and asked: > > > >>>> You just pointed the camera at the scene, did not especially meter the > > faces > >> or something else, and this is what you got?<<<<< > > > > Frank, > > Yep that's just about what one does with the M7! To me it's the super P&S > > camera without fiddling. > > > > And like Tina explained regarding slight change of exposure, the quick > > action of point at something to meter off, slight pressure on shutter > > release, re-frame and shoot can be done much faster than I type these few > > words. > > Ted, > > Just to play devil's advocate: > > Doesn't it become tiresome to do this on shot after shot after shot, since > the M7 doesn't remember the AE compensation past the current shot? > > With the M6 I'll meter the ground, grass or whatever once, and then shoot > away until the lighting changes -- without the need to reframe on each > shot. It seems to me that, when this technique is used with the M7, it is > actually more work not less. > > What do you think? > > Rolfe > -- > Rolfe Tessem - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html