Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/05

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Subject: [Leica] Am I wasting my time/money?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Tue Sep 5 21:29:15 2006

You have not paid attention Bart.  The D200 has all modes of metering, 
except the 3D Martix available on their ais mf lenses, seems quite 
reasonable to me.

Gene

-------------- Original message from Bartphotog@aol.com: -------------- 


> 
> In a message dated 9/2/06 7:58:34 PM, jgovindaraj@eth.net writes: 
> 
> << I really think that Nikon 
> 
> made a huge mistake, keeping the F mount constant, as generally 
> 
> everyone keeps cribbing about this, and not realising how unique it is. >> 
> 
> Oh, I realize. I just don't see how hard it would have been to make the 
> older, non-AF lenses usable, in at least aperture-preferred mode, on a 
> mid-grade 
> digital, if it could be done on the autofocus N70 and N90 (but not on 
> subsequent consumer-level AF film cameras, including the, supposedly more 
> advanced, N80. 
> 
> But enough OT carping. At the moment I'm learning to effectively use my 
> new 
> (well, very old, but new to me) M6! 
> 
> Bart 
> 
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