Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/29

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Cameras for street photography - waist level and othe rwise
From: Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 20:01:06 +1100
References: <1120AB2026ABD211A82600A024B971370C44C7@einstein.morton.org.uk>

>Howard Cummer writes:
>
>"In my experience if you want to shoot waist level using 35mm the only
>modern choice you have is Nikon F series cameras with removal prisms. Of
>the all the F models, F through F5, the best one in my opinion is the F4.
>With the earlier models you lose TTL metering when you take off the prism"
>
>No, the F3 retains all metering functions with the prism off, and - without
>a motor - is a quite a bit smaller than the F4.
>
>--
>David Morton
>dmorton@journalist.co.uk


There is always the Rollei 3003. I love that camera for all its querkiness

Cheers
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