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Subject: [Leica] Now about that M7.
From: Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:23:03 -0700 (PDT)

If the M7 is the latest and greatest, shouldn't one
get a Bessa? The advantage of AE, higher shutter speed
and sync speed; AND to be able to use our beloved
Leica lens seems to me should get our approval hands
down.
Also though not substantiated, shouln't the Bessa be
more reliable electronically ? 

- --- "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> wrote:
> :-) 'Simplicity' is often the term used to describe
> a product with very few
> features by those who love the product. I would
> point out that some of the
> people who are now raving about the modern miracle
> of AE on the M7 long
> defended the M6's lack of such techno-frippery and
> praised Leica for not
> being foolish enough to corrupt the M line with
> it.;-)
> 
> Simplicity indeed!
> 
> B. D.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On
> Behalf Of
> CHRISTOPHER.CHEN@CUSTOMS.TREAS.GOV
> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:13 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: re: [Leica] M7 Photo
> 
> 
> "Simplicity" or just lack of features?  It seems to
> me that Rolfe's query
> points up 1 situation where the Contax G2 (or Hexar
> RF, or any camera w/a
> separate AE lock) is superior to the M7 & where the
> M6 (or any manual
> camera) isn't that much harder to use.
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:12:45 -0400
> From: "faneuil" <leica_korenman@hotmail.com>
> Subject: re: [Leica] M7 Photo
> Message-ID:
> <OE75OUIHNkjgJKVApwO00001b2a@hotmail.com>
> References:
> <NEBBJDFBIKOBILIKPPBNCEGHJOAA.red735i@earthlink.net>
> <002201c2207e$e966ed00$633f4d18@gv.shawcable.net>
> <98780266.1025460066@berkshire.ldp.com>
> 
> Good point - and true.
> Only workaround would be to go to manual and lock in
> the settings.
> But hey, the aperture priority is really a joy to
> use.
> 
> Coming from a Contax G2, the simplicity is of the M7
> is wonderfully
> freeing.
> Most of all, I appreciate the quiet shutter (sound
> of one hand clapping
> next
> to the G2)
> 
> A new M7 owner (first time leica user times one
> week),
> Eric
> 
> - ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rolfe Tessem" <rolfe@ldp.com>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Photo
> 
> 
> >
> > --On Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:41 PM -0700 Ted Grant
> <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Frank Filippone wrote and asked:
> > >
> > >>>> You just pointed the camera at the scene, did
> not especially meter
> the
> > > faces
> > >> or something else, and this is what you
> got?<<<<<
> > >
> > > Frank,
> > > Yep that's just about what one does with the M7!
> To me it's the super
> P&S
> > > camera without fiddling.
> > >
> > > And like Tina explained regarding slight change
> of exposure, the quick
> > > action of point at something to meter off,
> slight pressure on shutter
> > > release, re-frame and shoot can be done much
> faster than I type these
> few
> > > words.
> >
> > Ted,
> >
> > Just to play devil's advocate:
> >
> > Doesn't it become tiresome to do this on shot
> after shot after shot,
> since
> > the M7 doesn't remember the AE compensation past
> the current shot?
> >
> > With the M6 I'll meter the ground, grass or
> whatever once, and then
> shoot
> > away until the lighting changes -- without the
> need to reframe on each
> > shot. It seems to me that, when this technique is
> used with the M7, it
> is
> > actually more work not less.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Rolfe
> > --
> > Rolfe Tessem
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