Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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