Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Is this some conspiracy to get me to buy an M7? If so, it is working... (-; - -Doug ps, glad you now have time for your M7... - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Felix Lopez de Maturana" <fmaturana@euskalnet.net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:12 PM Subject: [Leica] RE: M7 > I've started yesterday, after comig back home, shooting my new M7. In some > weeks I'll put some of the pictures in my web site if some of them does it > worth. But my first film was used in a very particular test. I loaded Sensia > II chrome, which does not allow light mistakes, and I shooted the whole > film F1:8, lenses on hyperfocal and "every" picture just on point and shoot > manner. I didn't even select the point where the ligh had to be chosen, just > point and shoot exactly like the most dumb tourist. Guess what? Every > picture was metered dead on! And this with 12mm, 21mm, 28mm, 50mm and 90mm > lenses as the field covered by the meter seems to change and to be bigger > when the focal increases. And that with all kind of situations: back light, > front light side light.So that from now I'll have full faith in my M7 > metering system. I was used to my Nikon F5 metering system, IMHO the more > sofisticated metering system ever built, but, with a much more simple > technology results of the M7 do match. > > Kinds regards > > Felix > > > -- > 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