[Leica] Hmmm... re: Erwin Puts

["Matthew Powell" <mlpowell@directvinternet.com>]

From the new M7 review:
"With one exception: the added freedom that the AE gives you by taking care
of exposure, allows for such spontaneous, intuitive and intimate picture
taking the M-photography one step closer to perfection."

From the Hexar RF review:
"When holding the Hexar, both hands hold the body and wen your finger
touches the release button, there is no trigger effect. The finger just
rests there and you do not get any feedback from the body. So you switch
almost automatically into a more passive state of mind and allow the camera
to work for you. That is easy to do as the automatic functions of the camera
(exposure, film transport, motorwinder) are so well executed that you start
to rely on them and even transfer control to them.

In fact you are starting to become an operator of the camera, adjusting the
wheels and not the driver who forces the camera to do as he wants it to act.

The transfer of controls to the camera and the mood of becoming more passive
in the photographic act is in my view the fine distinction between the Hexar
and the Leica. Photographing the same objects with a leica and a Hexar in
quick succession underscores this difference: with the Leica the work is
harder (more to think and act), but your act blends in with the subject and
you are part of it. With the Hexar your work is easier, but the remoteness
of the controls acts as a filter between the object and yourself. Let me
say, that you become a bit lazier when using the hexar and that shows in the
pictures."

Sorry if this had been pointed out earlier - I've basically just been
deleting anything related.

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