Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] The M6 Fugue
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 09:55:05 -0800

><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