Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com> wrote: >So an Eos1n or Eos1nRS are intended >to be driven by auto-exposure and auto-focus. >You don't drive the camera, you drive the controls >for the AF and AE and let them drive the camera. >This works well. It's really not "intended" that >you check a hand meter or try to outguess the camera >meter or autofocus, but rather, that you adjust their >behavoir. Gee, this is so... what's the word I'm looking for.. Ridiculous? The EOS-1n is one of the nicest cameras I've used as a manual camera. It's hard to think of a much nicer one really. It's one of the few cameras that you can use manually with one hand, its got a beautifully accurate and fine spot meter, and it's one of the few cameras with an easy to read, full 6 stop metering scale in the viewfinder in 1/3 stops. >The M6 is clearly meant for direct control. Yeh of course - there is no option. That's what this whole discussion is about. Leica users should be given more options. >(Classic note: To a Canon person, all the dials on Nikons go the wrong > way. To a Nikon person, all the dials on Canons go the wrong way....) If I remember right, Nikon did this to stop people changing from one system to another.