Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:24 PM 12/20/2001, you wrote: >Elliot, >I have the M4 and the M6. The older camera seems to me to be more solidly >made and shutter release much smoother. The nice thing about a meterless >camera is it forces you to take up and NOTICE exposure. You can take several >different readings with a handheld meter and gain considerable improvement >in having precisely exposed pictures or creative exposures. Its easy to >completely ignore exposure concerns when you are simply matching arrows. Once >you master exposure, it makes no difference which M you use. Thus, there >becomes no advantage to using the M6 and you get, with an M3, that great >viewfinder with no clutter at all. I have to concur with Bob - when I used only metered cameras I never really paid much mind to what exposure I was actually shooting - would set the aperture or shutter speed for DOF or freeze movement or whatever as needed and fired away. But with the non metered camera one must make a conscious note in order to transfer the meter info to the camera. I now find myself saying, "Hmmm this looks like F8 @ 125th" when I first look at a scene and then compare that with the meter reading...I find myself getting more accurate as time passes. BTW, M3 and M4, plus several medium format oldsters... - -- Craig Zeni - REPLY TO -->> clzeni at mindspring dot com http://www.trainweb.org/zeniphotos/zenihome.html http://www.mindspring.com/~clzeni/index.html Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change ready. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html