Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Tina on the M9 but I'd like to put in one more point on buttons issue: In the past decade I've owned 4 digital cameras most of them had buttons on them which I didn't know what they did. I never used them so I didn't see them. And as I'd go through the documentation every once in a while it should seem I really didn't need whatever they did so much. In the 90's I shot mainly Leica M's and the increasingly higher tech AF SLR's had no shortage of buttons. Some of which I bet few people used all that much. But the point is a button you don't use does not really get in your way. Is that something that really needs to be said? Are we really worrying about the aesthetics of a camera? To that I say where's the prints? Or at least where's the Jpegs? I'd love an M9 but the amazing functionality of today's DSLR's is nothing to glibly ignore. -- Mark R. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/onthisAutumnday/ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:07:49 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Looking at buying an M8 > > Try the M9. It fits your requirements. No extra buttons, toggles, > screens, programs. If you want it to work just like an M6, it will work > just like an M6. Just don't look at the LCD or turn it off. The only > difference that matters is that you can change ISO in the middle of the > "roll of film". Absolutely wonderful. You can also take several hundred > photos without changing rolls. Then, when you are ready to use the photos, > they are there! No further development needed. If you want to experiment > with different exposures or techniques, it won't cost you a cent in film or > development. > > The Leica M9 is there when you press the button. It doesn't get in your > way. You press. It captures. > > I hated my Canon digital cameras when I first switched to digital. Leica > is totally different. Just like film Leicas ;-) > > Tina > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:46 PM, <manolito at videotron.ca> wrote: > >> For me, photography is mostly about timing. My job is to press the button >> at the right time and the camera's job is to not get in my way. I press. >> It >> captures. >> >> My main requirement for a camera is to do what I want it to do when I want >> it to. >> >> I am annoyed by cameras with buttons on the front, buttons and toggles all >> over the back, on the sides. Panels here and panels there. Extra screens. >> Things to pre-program and tehn re-program for something else later. Very >> distracting when it comes to my timing. >> >> I suppose one could take 10x more photos to overcome all that distraction. >> But then, it isn't really about timing anymore, is it? >> >> I just need one button most of the time -- the shutter release -- and one >> screen -- the viewfinder -- that allows me to see the moment when I press >> the one button. >> >> For me, only the film Leica M truly fulfills my requirements. >> >> Emanuel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information