Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante, when you started your day, you lost your car keys, someone stole your parking space, the cafe was out of your favourite muffins, your coffee had a fly in it and your pet hamster has leprosy and an unplanned pregnancy or something??? ;-) ;-) Sheesh! 2009/11/10 Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> > Mark, this is not about raw speed - though I know that makes for a better > straw-man. > > 1. David Keenan is dead-on correct about the M8/M9 architecture, which > has a long shutter lag (six times that of an M3 and double that of a D3), > is > slow to a second shot (should/when you need one), and can lock up fairly > easily taking repeated shots, even without mashing down the shutter button > on continuous. I have years of experience with this on the M8 and agree > with Keenan that unresponsiveness - particularly on a first shot - is > inexcusable. This is even more the case where a camera allegedly is > designed to capture some "decisive moment." > > 2. Two things that didn't get mentioned (and hopefully these have not > carried on to the M9) are (a) the tendency of the M8 to wildly overexpose > if > the shutter is pressed too quickly when the meter is "waking up" - > apparently a bad habit carried over with the M7 meter - and (b) the > tendency > not to fire the flash at all if the shutter is tripped too quickly after > the > shutter is first pressed. Then go to #1 above for the slow recovery from > the resulting missed shot. > > If the M9 is in any way worse than an M8 in responsiveness, it's a fail. I > don't believe that a camera should have any ability to second-guess, ask > for > a "do-over," or be asleep on the job when I need it. > > The decision when and if to take a picture is not an exercise for a > committee. > > Unless that committee is a committee of one. > > Me. > > Dante > > ____________ > Dante Stella > http://www.dantestella.com > > NO ARCHIVE > > On Nov 9, 2009, at 1:06 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > > We'll see if anyone else in the world especially a reviewer especially a >> real reviewer thinks there's a speed issue with the camera. As in the >> camrea shoots too slow. Which he goes on and on about. >> >> I wasn't too offended till I got half way down the page and hit the >> " The Major Flaw of the M9" >> >> He's holding the shutter button down until the thing slow up and stops >> shooting at 2 frames per second and that takes seven or eight exposures. >> " Inexcusable" he says >> !?!?! >> >> And he insists on shooting "compressed RAW + fine JPG" . >> Gotta have both. >> It's gotta be compressed >> And he's gotta go on and on about it. >> >> The last time I held the shutter button down like that on even a DSLR was >> never. >> And I've shot skate boarders. >> >> But not Golf swing studies. >> >> There's a difference between camera bloggers and cameras reviewers. >> And I'd think the digitaljournalist people would know that. >> . >> >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Cheers Geoff The new LEICA M9 Passion for perfect pictures. http://www.m.leica-camera.com http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman