RE: [Leica] A Red Dot story

["Carleton, Sam" <Sam.Carleton@FMR.COM>]

As I think all those following this thread knows, I am the one that started
the thread on higher flash sync and one of the louder requesters of this
feature.

For the record, I am new to shooting with the M6, but since I have had the
camera (four weeks now), I have not had the desire to touch my Nikon F5.  I
only have the desire to learn to shoot with the Leica.  I fully understand
that things I had done in the past will other types of camera have to be
done differently, if at all.  

I would like to have a higher shutter release on the M6, but the thing that
is the most difficult to get use to NOT having when doing street photography
is the shifting of the lens and film plane.  Doing street photography with a
Leica is TOTALLY different then what I had done in the past with a LF Field
camera!

Sam

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Mark Rabiner [SMTP:mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com]
	Sent:	Friday, June 01, 2001 3:08 PM
	To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
	Subject:	Re: [Leica] A Red Dot story

	I think the more one uses their M6 the more one likes and does not
feel it is an
	incomplete camera but a camera which really is at it's peak... a
solid
	culmination of decades of tweaking.
	I think in most cases: the people who do the most complaining about
how the M6
	needs to be improved are simply justifying their non use of the
camera. And
	they've never really given the camera a chance. They'll go and to
get a shot and
	think "not this time for the M6 this shot needs AE, AF, Zooming,
high flash
	synch and so on.
	The only cure would be for these people to lock up all their other
multitudinous
	cameras in storage in a different state for a year. And then at the
end of the
	year figure out how many shots they DIDN'T GET. I think they'd be
surprised to
	find they missed few if any.

	(Of course you could say the same thing about a Rolleiflex)


	Mark Rabiner

	Portland, Oregon
	USA

	http://www.rabiner.cncoffice.com/