Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]nah, we want digital, even with manual focus. - - Phong > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry Ting > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:54 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica users don't like change > > > > Now if we can have AF as well.... > > --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: > > my buddy bd Colen said: > > >>> I know, Ted, I know - AE is God's gift to > > photographers and an M7 would > > > improve my life the way the washing machine and > > drier improved the lives > > > of housewives! :-)<<<< > > > > Aw BD mon ami, > > but the Leica M7 is the answer to many an exposure > > prayer making photo > > taking / making / printing so much more enjoyable > > than with an M6 or any > > other M camera. ;-) > > > > Given we've just souped 56 rolls of B&W film and > > each and every roll is > > identical for exposure while using two M7's 21-35 > > -50 lenses all indoors and > > various locations with in a building. The negatives > > were beautiful to > > contact print as every page required identical > > exposure time, so we banged > > off all the prints and souped about 25 sheets at a > > time... . Sure beats the > > heck out of fiddling one contact sheet at a time. > > :-) > > > > Think about time saved in making the exposures when > > all were identical > > without fiddling timer. And the developing? Why > > imagine developing 25 > > contact sheets in the same time as souping one > > contact sheet! ;-) Now that's > > cool and cuts down darkroom time. > > > > And yes I agree it's too bad the AE wasn't > > incorporated many years ago, > > however it wasn't. Now it is and without question it > > works like a dream and > > makes for greater concentration on subject and focus > > without aperture ring > > fiddling and lining up red arrow heads or red dot. > > And yes I thought that > > system was wonderful and I could make it work very > > well, but I stand by my > > early post comments that the M7 is the best M body > > of the lot to date. :-) > > > > And if one is a people photographer and or earning > > ones keep and working > > quickly with people doing things it makes for a > > greater number of usable > > pictures of equal exposure. However if one is into > > rocks, ferns, peeling > > paint and non breathing things, then any old Leica > > will do! ;-) :-) > > > > And B.D. old buddy, one of these days you'll come > > around! ;-) > > ted > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site > http://webhosting.yahoo.com > -- > 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