Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/05

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Subject: Re: [Leica] AF and rangefinders: one photographer's experience
From: Henry Ambrose <digphoto@nashville.net>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:42:03 -0500

>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