[Leica] M

[Herbert Kanner]

Actually, it’s a great camera despite quite a few features I’ll never use. In so many ways, it beats the late lamented M9.
Having figured it out, I can switch ISO and/or exposure compensation just as quickly as on the M9, even though the process is different.

One thing I really appreciate is the improvement in 
battery condition display. My M9 ran out of juice when the display said that it still had more than 1/3 of its energy left. The M was still going strong, though issuing repeated warnings when the battery dropped below 20%, and was still working fine at 15%, at which point I quit. So, for the M9, a spare battery was a necessity. I don’t think I’ll need one with this camera.
 
Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

Question authority and the authorities will question you.




> On Jul 14, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I asked a bunch of people, they all said it was easy, apparantly they hadn’t read the manual.
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>> On Jul 14, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote:
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>> I pretty much figured it out by spending most of a day and half of the battery charge playing with the menus.
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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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>>> 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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