Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Richard asked: Subject: [Leica] Listen to the heart or the brain? >I have a .72 M7, I'd like a .85 body... > > My brain says another M7 > My heart says MP > My pocket book says WTF, get a M6. > > Arrrgghhh...<, Richard, A couple of things. Usually I'd say "heck man go with your heart!" ;-) But if you already have one Leica M and are about to add to it with a different viewfinder, without question buy the exact same body model and body action. There's nothing more frustrating than working with two or three M's that do not work in unison with your fingers and experience intuition. No matter how bright something else is, or as I see a number of other posts with positives for other body models. If your fingers are accustomed to moving and adjusting the camera as though you're breathing, then all of a sudden you have to learn to breath a new way when instinct is established in the use of the older one? Trust me you'll get right ticked off if you shoot in a hurry. Given I've always worked with 3 M's on most assignments, I unfortunately had to work with one M7 and 2 M6's for a short period before the other M7's arrived and it was, quite frankly a huge pain in the butt! :-( So from experience and fingers trained to respond intuitively with the M6's after 15 years use I screwed-up settings because they weren't identical cameras. And as soon as the remaining M7's arrived the handling mistakes disappeared immediately. Twins mon ami, twins! In body and the seeing change becomes natural as soon as you look through the viewfinder. ted