Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/22

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Subject: Re: Off subject (somewhat)
From: c.blaue@bmsg.de
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 12:09:47 +0100

 Dan Cardish wrote:
> ...
>   By the way, I was not overly impressed with my 5 min. intro to the F5.
>   There is a little joystick like control on the back the lets you choose
>   which AF sensor you want to use.  I am sure that I can manually focus a lens
>   faster than messing around with that control.  Also, the camera had been set
>   in the 8fps mode.  Everytime I pressed the shutter release, the camera fired
>   of a dozen rounds.  The salesman told me that I was the first customer to
>   complain about it.  I just wanted to see how the camera felt to use,
>   normally.  That 8fps along with the "matrix colour metering" system are just
>   a couple of useless marketing gimmicks, IMHO.  (Good thing Eric W. isn't
>   part of this list anymore, else there'd be hell to pay!  He is an active
>   member of the Nikon Digest, in fact I think they should rename it to the
>   Eric Digest!).

>   Dan C.

My colleague just asked me, what could be so funny with my computer. Well,
it was your funny description of the F5. Thank you.

christoph