Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/15

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Subject: Re: Leica-Users List Digest V1 #687
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 12:27:44 -0400

At 09:11 AM 15-10-97 -0500, Eric wrote:
[snip]
>There's lots to a camera. How easy is it to load? What is the prism made up
>of? (Silver or cheaper aluminum for the reflective media). The F5 is a
>quantum leap ahead of the rest in the three points I mentioned. No other
>camera can touch the F5's 1005 pixel RGB meter. 
[snip]

This last point is debateable.  I have seen several comparisons of the F5's
metering with the R8, and they find that the differences, if any, are in
the R8's favour.  I'm talking about real world picture taking tests, not
laboratory tests.

Dan C.