Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree 100%. But it seems to me that L~ engineers saw M7 had be designed (just guessing - I haven't even touched one yet!) as an extension of M6 - and it meant the new camera was to be used by people who are already (?) familiar with the beast - and it would be natural if the new camera was used very much in the same way as the <old> one. Martin If the M7 had a button or a switch that would allow you to hold a setting for multiple exposures, you would be right. Unfortunately the M7 in AE mode only locks the setting for one exposure. In this situation I would meter manually once and just keep shooting until the light changed. This is not something you can do with the M7 in AE. It needs to have either a better AE lock or matrix metering in AE mode. I would greatly prefer a better AE lock. John Collier On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 07:46 AM, Mārtiņš Zelmenis wrote: > > May I chime in - > > not owning a M7 - hasn't the brand new camera got an <exposure lock> > switch > (operated in AUTO mode) of a kind? > > Martin > > > AE is not the best way to go in a situation like this. At least not the > way it has been implemented in the M7. The same light is falling on the > black suits and the white table cloth so just meter once and lock it > using manual. Having to constantly twiddle the exposure compensation > dial is not faster just sillier! > > John Collier > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2002, at 02:21 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> What about setting the override control to one or more under for the >> men >> in the black suits and over a stop or so for the white table cloth? >> That's what I'd do! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html