Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My wife has a little Nikon digital Push and Pray: - It takes two menu selections to turn the flash off. - Shutter lag is measured in parts of a minute. - While auto shut down takes nano-seconds. - Sometimes it simply refuses to take the picture. I am sure there are good logical reasons for all these behaviors. And I am sure the designer's mother is very proud. However the damn thing is landfill as far as I am concerned. I do not need any features beyond a clear viewfinder, contrasty rangefinder, shutter speed, aperture, shutter release and shutter cocking. I want controls that with practice I can forget about. Ones I can operate with hardly any thought. I watch the scene and manipulate the camera unseen. On an M camera with a tabbed 35, before I raise the camera to my eye, I can have the focus and exposure close so that even in difficult situations only minor tweaking is necessary. Heck, many times I don't even raise the camera to my eye. Just lift and shoot. John Collier On 18-Sep-06, at 4:20 PM, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote: >> >> There are other cameras out there with enough features to render >> them almost unusable. > John > > I've made my biggest efforts for understanding your statement and I > must confess I couldn't get it. Unusable because they don't work, > unusable because the owner is dumb... I do prefer to have that to > have not. While I too love the excellent simplicity of my Ms there > are situations where some useful *features* are welcome.