Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Godfrey DiGiorgi <ramarren@bayarea.net> Sent: Monday, October 18, 1999 23:45 Subject: [Leica] By the light of the Leica glow... > Buying this system has been an exercise in what NOT > to buy rather than the other way around. "Keep it > simple." If you want complexity, use an SLR. One of the great advantages to the M system is its simplicity, and I often wonder about people who complicate their M investments with bizarre lenses and adaptors and goggles and what not. Eventually they end up with something that is just as complicated as an SLR system, but far more awkward. > My choice of the 35/2 ASPH and 90/2.8 has worked out > like I'd hoped: they are a very comfortable complementary > pair for me ... How does one focus a 90 mm lens on a M6? Everything I read says that 90 mm is the extreme upper limit of practicality for a rangefinder focusing system. > The meter must be darn good because every frame > on both rolls is perfectly exposed. The meter is primitive and serves only as a starting point. Accurate exposures are up to you. That was my first lesson after buying an M6. For what it's worth, though, all of my exposures are correct now, so apparently it wasn't that hard to learn. > The quality of the Leica lenses is evident even in junk-one-hour > photofinishing 4x6 prints ... I think I can > spy the weak force at work at the subatomic level in there. Scan the negatives if you really want to see the quality. -- Anthony