Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Using the M6 was like coming home again. Here it is, a plain-old camera, >albeit a finely crafted one! Great viewfinder, precise split image, nicely >damped focussing, simple meter. No trying to guess when the autofocus system >is going to fail, no trying to outsmart the too-clever-by-half matrix >autoexposure system which is still trying to get shadow details when I want >the shadows left black. > >I am still in love with the camera. I take it with me everyday off to >school, sometimes with all the lenses, sometimes just with one lens when I >want to concentrate on seeing how the world looks through one focal length. >I take photographs everyday. Sometimes just one, sometimes a whole roll. >Photography is intoxicating again. The prints I get off my ink-jet might not >be museum quality, but they are lovely in their own way, and far better than >the drugstore stuff, and in color! Yeeeeeeeeesssssssssss!!!!!!!!! This is it! Henry