Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Cameras FS New Store -- Speaking of Nikons
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 23:26:06 -0700
References: <BB9A86F1.1CE4E%joseph@yao.com> <3F74B36B.1674E86D@rabinergroup.com>

At 2:45 PM -0700 9/26/03, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>Joseph Yao wrote:
>>
>>  on 26/9/03 5:51 pm, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabinergroup.com wrote:
>>
>>  > When did that Canon A1 come out?
>>
>>  April, 1978.
>>
>>  Joseph
>>
>That gave Nikon four months to come out with the FA. But I'd think they
>were already working on it.
>Mark Rabiner

They should have worked on it a bit longer. The matrix metering 
system (the first, or one of the very first) was a disaster unless 
you shot colour negative. The only deviation from centre weighted 
that it knew was overexposure. I tried shooting transparency film 
with it, and it was a disaster. It had the shortest tenure in my 
camera bag of any Nikon model. I replaced it with another FM.

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