Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You Wrote: <<<Oh deity of my choice, prepare me for the slings of flame to come. Every year or so I get the same overpowering urge to get an M6. I guess some of us never learn. Oh evolution, where is thy sting? So I toddle off to my local purveyor of all things Leica with funds and my other Leicas in tow. I look at and handle the camera. Feels great! Unfortunately I try some sample faux shooting and the goldarn meter drives me crazy. Flashing lights, changing every time I move the camera an centimetre. I have been using a handheld meter for so long that I find LED meters to be too distracting. Personally my big hope for the "new" M body would be a LCD meter display ( much less distracting). Well, back to my story. Disappointed, again, I put the camera down and look in the used Leica case. Why there is a 21mm f3.4 with finder for two thirds the price of this used M6. And my ----- the glass is perfect! At least it was there, I bought the darn thing. The time before it was a 90 f2.8 and so on. Once a bought a used M4-2, swing out polarizing filter and table top tripod and head. I still had a enough change for a whole wack of film. So my advice would be to buy used and burn that brick (of film) for free.>>> >>>>>>>> Your big hope for the new M6 has arrived. They don't make the .72 nonTTL anymore so you've waited long enough. LCD looks nice but doesn't quite give you the red flag - Shoot Now! And you can take the batteries out if you don't like 'em. It would seem pointless carrying a meter and disabling the M6 leds. Arrows are quick, pointing is very basic - cats won't but dogs will follow your pointing somewhere. The arrow when right in front like that strips away some intelligence from the shot and the focus is then on your "will" to shoot. Fumbling doesn't assist with this. It's so damn simple! Some have such a problem with the idea that one can pick up, e.g. an M6 and be a great photographer. It's a fact. Knowing how to use something doesn't have anything to do with how it works.Well, IT DOES, but it need not matter to the one out shooting. It's like a musician being denied 'hitting the spot' 'all the time... when it is found that he cannot read music. Yeah for photography style A or B one needs a certain know how. That's not any sort of universal limitation. The AF 100-feature cameras are the tough ones. You must read the manual! Or a simple p/s why isn't this a better choice for quick decisions and little knowledge? It is but lacking... eno