Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]><Snip> > Yesterday I read a past column by Bill Pierce on the Digital Journalists web > page. He was writing about the debate between the pro-digital crowd and the > pro-film crowd. He recalled debates he was party to some 30 years ago that > paired the on-board meter crowd vs. the non-metered crowd and wondered what > the big deal was. Some guys in this group are hopeless laggards. There is > NOTHING about intellegently designed AE metering that impairs the creativity > of the photographer. In fact, an argument can be made that it's liberating > and actually enhances the photographer's creativity. Those of us who use a > modern SLR in addition to our Leica M cameras know that. My M4-p and M3 are > fine for black and white but I would appreciate having an AE M-camera for my > slide film body. That way I could concentrate on the photo and not so much on > the exposure. > > Bob (tries to stay current to within at least a couple of decades) McEowen Bill Pierce is a favorite of mine I have two of his 11x14 prints! I'd like to weigh in for Auto you name it I think it's great to have that option. I may some day be in the mood for some of that stuff again. Aperture priority AE I would use first. Zone focusing at F11 and let the meter nail down the exposure at 126th or 127ths of a second!! or whatever!!. Sounds great sometimes! With the override dial to "place" your tones. Still darn happy with my M6's though. Like a contented cow! Mark Rabiner