[Leica] M

[Herbert Kanner]

I pretty much figured it out by spending most of a day and half of the battery charge playing with the menus.

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




> On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
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>> My M (240) arrived Friday. Of course, unpacking a new arrival from Leica is a great adventure. It will be hard for me to discard all those lovely box compartments.
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>> Unlike the excellent manual that came with the M9, I think this manual is an atrocity. I speak as a former professional. In my second year (of ten) at Apple, I decided to write a manual for a piece of internally-developed software with a totally incompetent one-page description. Because I had to use the software, I had to figure out how it worked by trial and error.
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>> Those were the days when managers could be imaginative. My reward for this manual was three bottles of wine a month for a year. And, I was appointed editor of the release notes of this department’s product—three releases a year. The notes grew to some 350 pages.
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>> So I speak from experience when I call the M manual an atrocity.
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> so much so that I got rid of the camera.
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> And I rarely read a manual, but in this case the more you need it, the worse it is.
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>> The biggest fault is a failure to explain clearly the two function of the “Set” button: a) to establish a choice among alternatives, and b) to provide a supplementary menu of stuff that one wants to access quickly, such as ISO or Exposure Compensation.
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>> Other than that, It is a most lovely camera, a clear improvement over the M9, and I’m delighted with it.
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>> Herb
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>> Herbert Kanner
>> kanner at acm.org
>> 650-326-8204
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>> Question authority and the authorities will question you.
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