Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]So Eric, Have you used every camera out there and tested its metering system to state this?! I have tested every top SLR made and can honestly tell you first hand which is the bestter metering system. IMO for 35mm SLRs the top 4 are like this: 1. Nikon F5 2. Canon EOS-1N 3. Pentax PZ-1p 4. Minolta 800si or Maxxum 9 Peter K - -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch [mailto:ewelch@ponyexpress.net] Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 12:16 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] AF, a FAD? Jeeze...It's not that hard... At 10:52 AM 5/3/99 -0700, you wrote: >We look past the reality that the concept of PHOTOGRAPHY IS SIMPLE. It most certainly is not. Photography on the hack level might be easy, but there isn't a camera that can make perfect exposures in any possible situation. So someone who wants to get beyond the snapshot (in the simple meaning of the term, not the genre that the art world has conjured up) has to work at it. They have to understand how light/film/processing works to progress to any level of competence. They also need to have a vision of something to say with their photography. Knowing how to get a good exposure and focus the camera is like buying canvas, brushes and paint. Unless you have the talent and knowledge and practice to actually apply the paint to the canvas in some non-random manner, it means nothing. Unless the art critics decide to make you their darling for some random purpose, of course. ;-) Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.