Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 31/08/2007, you wrote: >Actually ther M8 is every bit as intuitive as the previous M's. No >real reason to read the manual at all. Unless you cannot figure out >how to charge the battery or put the SD card in. Actually very >similar to film in a M6 or M7, at least it is in the same >location. Only a couple of things to even set, DNG/JPG and ISO. The >rest you can worry about a week or so after starting to shoot. Heck >downloading the digital images is simple. Even I figured this thing out. > >Gene You are right, Gene. I had the pleasure of using a pre-production M8 for a couple of weeks, a year ago - well before it was introduced and well before there was an instruction book for it! http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/M8.htm The only non-intuitive bit was changing the ISO ... you simply press SET rather than MENU, and when you lightly press the shutter button, it sets the parameters. A neat way to reduce the button count by one, and as the ancient Japanese proverb says... "Simple - when know how!" Otherwise the camera is absolutely intuitive. I hope the promised R10 is as simple to use! Cheers! --- David Young, Logan Lake, CANADA Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/ Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt Stock Photography at: http://tinyurl.com/2amll4