Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Although I have expressed a desire on the LUG in the past for an AE version of the M6, I must agree with Jim. After several years of using the current M6, I am sufficiently comfortable with it that I'm not convinced that AE would make me any faster. Once you adopt certain habits, like pre-setting focus and estimated exposure settings based on experience when entering a new picture taking situation, you can become very fast indeed. What I love most about using the M6 is its complete lack of automation to interefere with making photographs. However, as I begin to turn my attention more to digital media, what would be really useful to me is a digital body that accepts M-mount lenses. If you need to shoot digital, you don't have much choice. Either you go with a point and shoot with a lousy lens, or you must carry a large, costly digital SLR. The Nikon 990 I'm currently using has a 3+ megapixel density, but the lens is really bad. Color fringing, barrel distortion...you name it. Can you imagine how quiet a digital M body would be?! The main problem I see with this is that such a body would depreciate quickly, as all digital cameras do. They would be the first "disposable" Leicas. Perhaps Konica or Voigtlander will address this market, but I struggle to see a viable business in m-mount digital cameras. - --Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Brick" <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 5:23 PM Subject: [Leica] Re: AE camera availability > At 04:57 PM 7/7/00 -0600, John Collier wrote: > >The M6 AE may well be announced at Photokina but if past experience is any > >guide, expect them to be in very short supply. I think it is better to have > >a camera in the hand than a better camera in the bush. > > > >John Collier > > How does anyone know that the M6 AE is a "better" camera? I would guess > that the "real McCoy", a fully mechanical M6, will still be the better > camera. At least until proven otherwise. > > Jim >