Re: [Leica] R5-R7 decision

["Margaret Jeffcoat" <margaret01@excelonline.com>]

Spend the extra money and get the R-8. it is light years ahead of all the
others
a much more solid feeling camera. Meter pattern selection with all of the
different
shutter modes (m/a/p/t) you will not be sorry!!!!!!!!!! My R7 will be making
room
for another R8 in the very near future.
Cheers Wilber Jeffcoat
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Aram Langhans <alanghans@komoto.naches.wednet.edu>
To: leica users group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: [Leica] R5-R7 decision


> Maybe I could get some help with my decision.  I use an R4 right now and
> would like to upgrade a bit.  My main motive is that my eye sight is
getting
> to the stage at age 51 that I will need some viewfinder diopter help.  I
was
> all set on an R5 from a fellow LUGite, but then a friend brought over his
> "new" R7.  A bit larger, but not much.  I have to admit I was always put
off
> by the R5's lack of 1 second manual shutter selection.  I take quite a few
1
> second shots as I like to shoot waterfalls, streams and do a fair amount
of
> macro work where 1 sec gives me that one extra stop DOF.  I know that this
> speed is available in aperature priority mode, but I have never trusted
auto
> modes.  Having shot with an all manual Rollei SL35 for close to 30 years
> before getting my R4 last year, I haven't made the physological switch.
> Often I must use less or more exposure than the meter tells me and in
manual
> mode this is easy.
>
> The R7 has this 1 second and more.  It has 1/2 shutter speeds.  I tend to
> think that f-stop is more important than shutter in my style of shooting,
> and often have to open or close a 1/2 stop to be able to use the full
> shutter steps.  Maybe this 1/2 stop thing is carrying things too far.
>
> Can anyone give me any perspective in this deilema?  Should I get an R5 or
> spend twice the money on an R7?  Has anyone seen real practical beneifts
to
> the R7?  Is the meter more accurate?  Benefits of 1/2 shutter speed
> selection?  Any other real improvements on the R7?  Actually looking at
used
> prices it is only a few hundred bucks more for an R8.  R7's are going for
> $8-900 and R8's are around $1100.
>
> I could get another lens for the difference in price if I bought the R5.
>
> Decisions, decisions.
>
> Aram
>
>
>
> This message is made of 100% recycled electrons.  No new atoms were
> destroyed in making it.
>
> Aram Langhans
> Science Teacher, Naches High School
> P. O. Box 159/101 W. 5th. St.
> Naches, WA 98937
>
> "Science Rules"
>
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