[Leica] Comparing B&W M9/MM

[george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)]

As a manual shooter all my life I've never understood how aperture, shutter, 
focus, shoot can be seen as more "complicated" than punching and scrolling 
through endless menus, and choosing from: 30 focus points, or all of them, 4 
or more different metering and/ auto focus "modes."

Yes. I have used auto everything cameras. Just not with pleasure. Some may 
understand "the pleasure" that accompanies manual tasks; others may not. 
This goes for many different crafts. Kneading dough vs bread machine. 
Drawing a line with brush or pen vs mouse or iPad. Sawing a board with a 
fine Japanese blade vs a noisy motor powered blade.

I believe the pleasure comes from body and mind working together in an 
intuitive, virtually thoughtless manner; which comes only with practice of 
the given craft. YMMV

a note off the iPad, George

On Jan 30, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
wrote:

> Oh, i know how the f*ker behaves, but then i wish there is a quick +1 stop
> lever or something. Yes, i do put it on manual at times, but it really
> shouldn't be that complicated :-)