Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

hmmm.

let's be fair.  a user *skilled* with the use
of their particular auto-camera
(say, an eos1n in my case), can make
it do what they want very easily.

but then again, a user skilled with the use
of an m6... can make it do what they want...

but, the high end auto-slrs have pretty
refined controls to let you guide their
behavoir.  the *worst* cameras are little
p&s cameras that won't listen to you at all...

while the m6 has really nice controls, I
don't think that lack of automation helps
it directly.  it's very small, very quiet.
but if it had auto-exposure and a motor,
and was the same size and just as
quiet, that would be even better, so
long as you retain the option to do it
manually....

bmw



- -----Original Message-----
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica technology, creative control


>At 08:36 AM 7/2/98 +0200, you wrote:
>
>>And the less you HAVE to play with rings and dials, the more the camera
>>is out of the way. That is the advantage of muti zone AF, high end ultra
>>sophisticated matrix metering, high end ultra sophisticated auto-flash
>>mangement and fast motors  ;-)
>
>In practice, that's not the way it works. You have to keep your mind on
>exposure, but with a Leica, it's much easier to just do it and get on. With
>the new whiz-bang cameras you're always thinking "Am I in the right mode
>for this camera? Opps, gotta change modes, oops, reach back there and
>switch focusing zones, no, that's the wrong zone, there, now you notice in
>the background something happening, and want to increase depth of field,
>move focusing point where  you want it, focus, recompose, oops, in the
>wrong mode, now have to go from manual to depth of field mode...change
>custom settings from A to B (on an F5) because focus priority isn't right
>for this kind of picture, on and on...
>
>Yep, that's getting technology out of the way.
>
>Leica.
>
>Meter, set exposure, recompose, focus, snap. It becomes automatic. :-)
>
>You can do that with the other camera, but then why bother with all those
>extra modes?
>--
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.
>