Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Dante Stella <dstella1 at ameritech.net> wrote: > Mark, this is not about raw speed - though I know that makes for a better > straw-man. > 1. ? ? ?David Keenan is dead-on correct about the M8/M9 architecture, which > has a long shutter lag (six times that of an M3 and double that of a D3), > is > slow to a second shot (should/when you need one), and can lock up fairly > easily taking repeated shots, even without mashing down the shutter button > on continuous. ?I have years of experience with this on the M8 and agree > with Keenan that unresponsiveness - particularly on a first shot - is > inexcusable. ?This is even more the case where a camera allegedly is > designed to capture some "decisive moment." > 2. ? ? ?Two things that didn't get mentioned (and hopefully these have not > carried on to the M9) are (a) the tendency of the M8 to wildly overexpose > if > the shutter is pressed too quickly when the meter is "waking up" - > apparently a bad habit carried over with the M7 meter - and (b) the > tendency > not to fire the flash at all if the shutter is tripped too quickly after > the > shutter is first pressed. ?Then go to #1 above for the slow recovery from > the resulting missed shot. The M9 I reviewed was about the same as the M8, which for me is too slow. I don't mean frames-per-second, like Dante, I mean responsiveness. It also did both of Dante's points in 2. Marty