Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/05/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 at a Bris
From: "Mārtiņš Zelmenis" <martin@lrpv.lv>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 08:18:42 +0200

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!

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