Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/21

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Subject: [Leica] the Rose on/off switch
From: aaron.sandler at duke.edu (Aaron Sandler)
Date: Wed Apr 21 12:47:07 2004

At 03:28 PM 4/21/2004, Gene wrote:
>I would think the M6 users would have the same problem.  Also if you put
>the camera away for some period of time, your exposure would almost surely
>change as the light level will change, so why not just turn the camera off?
>the amount of time it takes to check exposure after turning the camera on
>is negligible and since you would have to adjust exposure anyway after a
>period of off time, you loose no time prior to shooting in this situation.

For some reason I'm in the mood to nitpick today...

The reason this annoys me on my M6TTL is that turning the shutter speed to 
"Off" is one extra thing to have to do rather than just jamming the camera 
in my bag/pocket/whatever.  Sure, it's not _that_ big a deal, but ideally I 
would prefer a combination on/off AND shutter lock like the one on the 
Nikon FM2 where you pull the advance lever out slightly to turn the camera 
on.  I find that I do this anyway out of habit, so it'd be perfect for me.


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