Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > A friend of mine got recently hooked with B&W photography. In the past he > didn't know it better and bought a large amounts of sophisticated AF > equipment with ultrafast AF-motors, eye-detected sharpness indictators and > so on for large sums of money. > > Not very astonishing (for me) the first few films with portraiture he gave > me for development were wrong exposed and about 30% were grossly unsharp. > I'm now in the process of converting him to a Leica M... > > > Martin > Grossly wrong exposed and unsharp spends like user era to me. He didn?t bother to read a basic photography book and/or the manual to the camera. Is this approach going to help him with the M system which is far less a system for idiots? Af cameras can be set at P and it's hard to screw them up your friend must have had real talent taking it off that setting without reading the manual and getting some background knowledge as I said. I hope he does more justice to the M system than he did to the Canon! But why that would be the case I don?t know. If its a question of trying to shoot at an 8th of a second with a 50 and your exposure compensation set to minus 2 when you don?t even know what that is for or what it is. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/