Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dan offered: > I recently bought and then sold an M7. I paid $ 2000 ( mint-, used ) and > sold on ebay for $ 1975, so I guess I paid $ 25 for the week I used it. > > Why did I sell it ? Well, compared to the M6, I just didn't find it to > be > any great leap forward in a camera...Sure for Leica it may have been a > leap, > but for me it wasn't a big enough difference to warrant owning the M7 when > the > M6 suits me well. And one other comment, does it bother anyone else that > the sharp edge of the hot shoe is so close to the winder ? I have > scratched > myself on a few occasions grabbing the camera.... > > Anyone else with similar thoughts ?<<<<<<< Nope!! But then I'm a working photojournalist and not a techie nit picker! But then I feel deeply for you and your scratches! Like, heavens get a life! Scratches be damned! I have always worked with 3 M type cameras at the same time for roughly 50 years hanging off my neck! Until the new M7 appeared on market. We were about to start shooting our new book, "Women in Medicine. A Celebration of Their Work." A B&W tribute to the women; doctors, nurses and technicians involved in medicine when the M7 became available. And with AE lock making it a fast and no fiddle diddle camera for my style of working on documentaries. Ordered one to have a try. Shot 3 rolls of Tri-x at ASA 800 under all kinds of lighting conditions with nothing more than a fixed aperture and shot as soon as the shutter speed came up in the view finder. 3 rolls and every exposure right on the mark. Now I said nothing about picture content as it wasn't relevant, the exposure was and they were all perfect to the extent that we printed one roll all with he identical enlarger time and development and every frame was perfect for printing. Other than a slight dodge or burn where necessary! If necessary. If anyone wishes to challenge this save your breathe and buy the book, the proof is right there! Ordered two more M7's and immediately went on the road shooting in hospitals of North America. 500 hundred rolls and a few months later and not a spoiled frame due to ...." M7 picking the exposure" No nicks, no whines nor bitching as it's the best damn Leica RF made! At the moment far better than all the blather about the M8! So your complaint, "read whine" about a little sharp edge is pointless! Actually if I'd have found this a distraction, hell I'd have got a very fine metal file and nicked the edge off and carried right on shooting! See it's so simple when one thinks KISS about things rather than whine! It seems of late the list is beginning to take on a new meaning and maybe needs a new name....... The "Leica Whiner's Group!" Or something more fitting to the useless banter about neck straps, sharpie edges and the colour magenta! Wouldn't it be far more beneficial to all if everyone went out and took pictures for a few weeks? ted