[Leica] Metz M20

["steve" <steve@mvillage.com>]

Scott, can you tell me what the features are of the metz 20? what is the
widest f stop you can set on auto with 400 iso film?
thanks
steve
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>From: M3novie@webtv.net (Scott Green)
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: [Leica] Europe: street/museum photography
>Date: Fri, Oct 9, 1998, 6:33 AM
>

>Evenin' folks!
>
>When I went down to Costa Rica this past August, I was at first a little
>concerned myself with the purported "theft problem."  However, I can
>honestly say that I never even once felt in any more danger than I do in
>some places here in the San Francisco area -- or anywhere else I've
>travelled for that matter.  And I am far from a hulking behemoth of a
>guy!  135lbs do not offer much in the way of inertial resistance to
>would-be thieves.  What I discovered was that my usual precautionary
>measures seemed to suffice.  Only once did anyone even recognize the M3
>with its 50 or 90 (I like 90's too, Marc) attached:  an elderly German
>gentleman who spied me on Tamarindo Beach )twice actually), saying to
>his wife, "Ah, this is gut Kamera."
>
>Anyway, no matter what camera I'm carrying or where I'm carrying it, I
>just try to use my head and common sense.  No flashy bags, strap
>bandolero-style, never leaving it out of my immediate grasp (if it
>leaves my grasp at all)  Besides, for the kind of shots I most often
>"see," they'd be lost if I had to fumble around for the thing.  In fact,
>it is this very point that made me finally buy my M3:  near instant
>access thatcan be utilized almost like an extension of my (getting
>iffier) eyes.  And while I'm on a roll :-) let me just say that I
>finally bought a flash -- one of those new Metz CB20 sumthins -- but I
>have yet to use it for anything more than a geee-whiz look at that shot.
>For, like Ted et al, I most often see what's around me courtesy of the
>Great Mamma Nature, rather than what I _might_ see with a blaze of Xenon
>or whatever.  Admittedly, though, one of the reasons for this is that I
>just plain don't know the finer points of flash.  But, then, there are
>those tiems when I want one.  Will I ever use it?   Hmmm....???
>
>Anyway, Roger, I say pishah to the guide books!  Just use your noggin'
>and things'll probably be fine -- except for my growing jealousy ; )
>
>Cheers!
>Scott Green
>
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