Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] RE: M7
From: "Ted Bayer" <tedbayer@harbornet.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 19:14:59 -0700
References: <NEEPKLGJDPMKEMNCJMKNOECECAAA.fmaturana@euskalnet.net>

Hi Felix:

Happy for you.  Good things happen to good people.

You and Ted have both had the same experience -- the meter being "dead
on" and the camera working like it should under almost every condition
you could imagine.

I sure would like to have one.  Maybe someday.  ;-)

Ted In Olalla

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Felix Lopez de Maturana" <fmaturana@euskalnet.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 4:12 PM
Subject: [Leica] RE: M7


> I've started yesterday, after comig back home, shooting my new M7. In
some
> weeks I'll put some of the pictures in my web site if some of them
does it
> worth. But my first film was used in a very particular test. I loaded
Sensia
> II chrome, which does not allow light mistakes,  and I shooted the
whole
> film F1:8, lenses on hyperfocal and "every" picture just on point and
shoot
> manner. I didn't even select the point where the ligh had to be
chosen, just
> point and shoot exactly like the most dumb tourist. Guess what? Every
> picture was metered dead on! And this with 12mm, 21mm, 28mm, 50mm and
90mm
> lenses as the field covered by the meter seems to change and to be
bigger
> when the focal increases. And that with all kind of situations:  back
light,
> front light side light.So that from now I'll have full faith in my M7
> metering system. I was used to my Nikon F5 metering system, IMHO the
more
> sofisticated metering system ever built,  but, with a much more simple
> technology results of the M7 do match.
>
> Kinds regards
>
> Felix
>
>
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