Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I absolutely agree with your comments. The whizz-bang camera I was using was a Contax N1, and I must say that this is the only SLR camera that I have ever used (including EOS1N, F5 etc.) that I feel completely in control of and have adapted to using almost as second nature. It is an absolute delight to use either manually or automatically, and in manual mode it is so much a second nature that I can really concentrate on the image and not on what I need to do. First time I have ever felt that with an auto SLR. But, if I could keep only one camera, the M6 would be my lifelong companion. Simon Chris Quinn wrote: SNIP: > Which makes me think about Barney Quinn's message (no relation), about > picking up the M6 with some dread, and finding that all of those old skills > came right back. Also seems to relate to Simon Lamb and his wizz-bang > (sorry: 'whiz-bang'?) cameras and using them like his M6: focus & meter once > & leave it until things change significantly. I've tried shooting a friend's > Nikon F100, my father's F5, a Contax N1 in the shop, and all I could think > about was what my hands were doing. With my M6, all the energy that I put > into thinking about the whiz-bang camera goes into thinking about the image. > It's easy to get caught up thinking how cool it would be to have the hottest > Nikon/Canon/Contax Auto-Everything, but our Leicas, old-technology and all, > are still capable of giving us spectacular images. They are simple, the > learning curve is short, and rather than spend days and weeks reading the > instruction manual, we get to hang out on the LUG.