Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Herr wrote: > Agreed, this is what AE lock ought to be. AE "hold" as implemented on most cameras is nearly > useless to me. Note that (for all of its other faults) the Contax G2 does implement a useful persistent AE Lock. The on-off switch around the shutter release button has three positions: off, on, and AEL. Perhaps a future version of M7 could extend the on-off switch in the same fashion. The only problem with this setup is that because the lens aperture is not communicated to the camera, what is locked is actually the shutter speed. If you change the aperture, the locked shutter speed does not change. But if you remember this little gotcha, it is actually quite a useful feature. It is quite a bit faster than using the matched diodes on the M6. Mark Davison - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html