Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]haaahaaa... the lack of a simple exposure compensation button drove me nuts when I got the camera. Before I had it in my hands I thought that the lever on the back dial was perhaps spring loaded and you could adjust it with your thumb. Yeah, right. One day I was peering through the finder at a back light shot and was saying to myself "Damn i! That #@!% AE is going to make her grey instead of black! All I want is to compensate a stop and a half!" and in my frustration I opened the aperture a stop without letting go of the shutter. One of these days when I win the lotto, I'm going to have DAG reroute that darn dial to a R8 type lever... ;-) feli at 5:20 PM, Richard wrote: > OMG, blink blink blink blink blink! (light bulbs coming on...) > > One major complaint I have with the M7 Exp. Conp. is that it is so > PITA to use (fiddle something on the back while your subject grows old > and dies, what an antithesis to the M philosophy...) and I know the > "limitation" that once you hold the shutter half way down, the shutter > speed it selects stay regardless what you do with the aperture. Most > people, including myself, think of it as a limitation... > > But oh my! It's so simple! It's a quick method to do exposure > compensation!!! Hold the shutter half way down and change the > aperture! Wow! Mother Solm does know best! > > At 04:43 PM 1/2/2005, Feli di Giorgio wrote: > .... My only complaint about the camera is that I wish it had a > exposure compensation lever for +/- a stop like the R8 has.. My way > around that is to adjust the lens aperture +/- a stop once I have > locked the exposure value by holding the shutter release halfway > down.. _______________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com