Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas Herr jotted down the following: > I like the classic simplicity, light weight and minimal battery dependance of > the R6.2, but the R8's ergonomic design and the fantastic viewfinder and the > half-stop shutter speed increments in manual mode would persuade me to buy it > over the R6.2. Why o why cannot Leica release an R9 which has the shell of the R8, the flash circuitry of the R8, but a mechanical shutter a la R6.2. Hell, even without TTL flash circuitry, flash pre-metering, and a sync speed of 1/100s, it would still be the best Leica R to date. You'd still have three metering modes (matrix, centre-weighted, spot) but only manual exposure. Sweet. M. - -- Martin Howard | "We can't make mistakes like that on our Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | own. We need computers to help us." email: howard.390@osu.edu | -- A pharmacologist on computerization www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +-------------------------------------------