Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Agreed. The best AE lock design was on the Contax 139, RTS II and lowly Yashica FX-D. It was mounted on the front and could be set with a flick of the finger. It would hold the reading as long as needed without requiring any keeping-the-finger-on-the-button gymnastics. It's a design I have yet to see bettered. Simon Stevens Jesse Hellman wrote: >One of the weakest links in the M7 is that the exposure locked in is >held only for that one time, requiring remetering for each additional >shot except in (my opinion/experience) a small proportion of instances. >Recomposing the picture even slightly may result in a different exposure >when the subject is in the same light. >This could have been avoided with a button/switch which would have >allowed the metered exposure to be held as long as needed. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html