Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 5/5/04 10:25 AM, "Feli di Giorgio" <feli@creocollective.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 10:14, B. D. Colen wrote: >> BUT...And I am NOT looking for a fight with the R crowd...by modern SLR >> standards, those same R8s with what you say is great metering and that >> great Leica glass, are definitely at least a decade behind the curve in >> terms of features. R8 aficionados may not want those features, but they >> are a given in the rest of the photo world, and that - and pricing - >> severely limits the R market. >> >> BTW - to what Nikon are you comparing the R8's metering? >> >> B. D. > > What metering features is the R8 lacking and does it really matter? > > > Feli > And what is ten years. I have SLR's 20, 30, 40 years old whose meters never fail the pictures I get from them. How sophisticate is a sensor reading off a painted white dot on the shutter curtain of an M6 or later? Does an SLR need 35 multi matrix for some reason to make a picture come out? The pictures I take with a Nikon FM and It's motor drive some out right on the nose every time and I never miss my focus. Leica puts most of it's R and D into its glass and that's what I would do if I ran such a company. That's what I value as a photographer. A good deal of my work is done with a meterless Hasselblad hand held or on a tripod with any variety of hand held meters. I work as fast this way as anyone I see around me who have meters in their cameras. I'd just as soon shoot with an M2. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon New-improved http://rabinergroup.com/