Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 Exposure
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:02:51 -0500

Better? The F3 had ttl flash....And unless I've gotten mixed up, didn't
it also have more exposure options..shutter preferred? Auto? Or have I
lost my mind - it's entirely possible. :-)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of John
Collier
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 3:40 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Exposure


I think it is more like an early eighties F3 with a viewfinder and a 
better flash system.

John Collier

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 11:35 AM, bdcolen wrote:

> Right you are. Which is to say:
> IF the M6 is a 1953 camera updated with 1962 metering,
> THEN the M7 is a 1953 camera updated with 1972 metering.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of John Collier
>
> There is no matrix metering, no evaluative exposure, no nothing. The 
> M7 takes its readings from a light circle on the shutter curtain. That

> is it. It is the same as an M6 except the camera twirls the shutter 
> dial for you; figuratively speaking of course, the shutter speed is 
> changed electronically.

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