Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave Richards wrote: > With all due respect, this is like saying that an automatic weapon makes a > shooter a better marksman, because he (she) now has a 30-round magazine > with which to hit a target once, instead of doing it right with one round. Dave, something in this example is lacking. In your camera you have a 36 exposure magazine. Now if you fit a motor drive, then you have an automatic shooting camera with a 36 shot magazine. What's the difference. You still have to aim with both systems. Its amazing, how some automatic parts on a camera are not considered as automatic. For example the Flash TTL metering. What is not automatic about this. The big complaint by many Leica users about the new Hexar camera was the lack of TTL flash metering. Comments like:" This is a big minus" or "how could they?" and so on. Often by the "Never any automatic for me" People. How selective! What this people should be doing to get a totally non automatic flash unit, or better use bulbs and use the guide number, divide it by the distance and then set the aperture. Anything else is not creative. Or is it? I bet some of you don't even know anymore how to work out the settings manually. At worst they use the calculator on the back of the flash unit. Why is it, that as soon as someone mentions a M type Leica with automatic it reverts to a M6AE? Even if it was referred to as M7 or M8. Instantly, a replay comes back:" No way do we want a M6AE". Nobody mentioned anything about an M6 automatic. Leave the M6 (With all its automatic functions) as is and make it an M6 derived M7AE. All it needs is a big red M6 or a big M7AE on the front of the camera, and everyone instantly notices the creative M6 users and the non creative M7AE users. However the proof ,finally, is in the pictures. Regards, Horst Schmidt NB. When Leitz released The M3, after the 3F, a big part of the advertising was the incorporation of the automatic Flash sync. As compared to the manual setting of the 3F. Nobody then seemed to have complained about this >futuristic, noncreative< addition. What went wrong?