Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:45 PM 6/21/96 -0400, you wrote: >At 03:16 PM 20/06/96 -0500, you wrote: >The F5 looks neat, but I'll keep my F4. Nothing on the F5 tempts me. Now, >if the Leica R8 is a decent box maybe I'll be convinced to finally scrap my >Nikon gear and go to Leica for SLR as well as RF. :-) > >Michael The F4 was just too heavy for me at my age :-) Also see http://133.5.149.253/~walter/f5.html - reports and pictures - a self correcting shutter and five zillion facet light meter!!! Seriously, I wonder just how exact the camera has to be. It is a long way from taking an incident reading in the sunlight and shooting a whole film, or the sunny 16 rule, and having a lens mounted on more computer power than desktop computers had just a short time ago. When I got turned off the computer cameras and came back to the R7 was when one offered several different inserts for portraits, landscape, closeup, fast action, etc. The N90s also had such a menu which I didn't care much for and which I am sure many people really like. The R7 also has knobs (like the F4) and is lighter and for my purposes a lot more compatable with how I take pictures. Good thing we are all different or we would only have one camera on the market. Dick Hemingway Norman, Ok