Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/15

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Subject: RE: [Leica] M7 Exposure
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 12:02:08 -0500

Right you are - and wrong I was...;-)

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 John
Collier
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 4:43 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Exposure


The Nikon F3 had aperture priority and manual using an electronic 
shutter with one mechanical back up at 1/60. Flash sync was 1/80 and a 
limited TTL flash system with no exposure compensation (now they have 
F3 adaptors that give +/- 1/3 of a stop: whoopee). Metering was the 
usual Nikon bottom/center weighted.

I think the M7 is just slightly more sophisticated than the F3.

John Collier
On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 02:02 PM, bdcolen wrote:

> 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-----
> On Behalf Of John Collier
>
> 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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