Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You are correct...confirmed from my own decades of experience :) However I was comparing the Hexar to the comments about an F5 from the previous post, not to an M.... ;) - -R >At 12:53 PM 9/12/00 -0500, Robert Jagitsch wrote: >> >>Case in point: a couple of weekends ago, I went to visit my parents. >>We went out to an Italian restaurant and I was able to snap photos of >>them with the Hexar very unobtrusively. All I had to do was focus and >>compose, I didn't have to worry about the exposure. I just put the >>Summicon 35 wide open and the camer chose the exposure. The shutter >>and motor were very quiet; although not as quiet as an M, my parents >>still never knew I was shooting photos of them. This would NOT have >>been the case with an F5, not even close. >> >>-R > >It is my humble opinion, as well as decades of manual cameras and >experience, that the Hexar's AE ability contributed little, perhaps >nothing, to the picture taking experience and whether the exposures were >good or not. As a matter of fact, AE in a restaurant can give you a worse >"hit" rate than no AE. > >A reflected meter reads anything in front of it. Black jacket, white >sweater, overhead light, etc. If you are in a restaurant, find a neutral >subject in an average lighting situation, read it, set your camera, and you >are done. Take pictures without changing the exposure. An AE camera will >read that black jacket and give you much over exposure. It will read that >white sweater or bright overhead light and give you gross underexposure. > >In these situations, the Leica M camera is the master of perfect exposures >(the human brain at work) and stealthily quiet operation. > >So my humble opinion is, there really isn't anything that a Hexar can do >that is "better" than an M camera. It does "different" things, not >necessarily better things. Some of these "different" things can actually be >a burden. >