[Leica] IMG: Jammed

[kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)]

Hi Ted,

You are so absolutely right. Some years ago, I advised a friend to buy a 
Nikon SLR which had aperture-preferred exposure control; it came out after 
my purchase of a film Nikon SLR that didn't. I coveted her camera and was 
most please when she decided that what really she needed was a small point 
and shoot and sold that Nikon to me. However, very shortly after I bought it 
back, I bought a used M6 TTL and never used the SLRs again. It was either 
the Leica or a Yashica or Olympus P&S.

So, when I got the M9, I was immediately happy with aperture-preferred. I 
did discover Auto-ISO last week (does the M8 have it?) and decided it could 
be useful automation in the cases where I need to set and stay with a high 
shutter speed. Then, I could pick an f-stop that's reasonable for the 
situations and let Auto-ISO take care of exposure. Haven't run into such a 
situation yet, but if I go to photograph a horse jumping competition, it 
would be useful.

Herb

Herbert Kanner
kanner at acm.org
650-326-8204

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On Aug 3, 2013, at 4:09 PM, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:

> John McMaster OFFERED:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Jammed
> 
> 
>> I think you are giving cameras the credit for too much knowledge, they 
>> are dumb 'if this do that' type machines - I think you needed the auto 
>> ASA with manual exposure. I stick with all manual ;-)<<<<
> 
> Hi John,
> I gave all that manual settings up when I started shooting with 3 Leica 
> M7's.  I bought one first and shot 3 rolls of Tri-x 400 @ ASA 800 with the 
> camera selecting the exposures each frame. Souped the 3 rolls together and 
> made prints from each roll after the camera selecting the exposures. Each 
> roll givin identical print exposure times in the developer under every 
> type of lighting conditions......... they all printed using the identical 
> print exposure time for acceptable prints.
> 
> I immediately ordered two more M7 bodies as Sandy Carter and I were about 
> to start shooting our international all B&W book...... "Women in Medicine. 
> A Celebration of their work!" The third of my Trilogy books on the medical 
> profession in action! I have the last copies about to arrive shortly from 
> the publisher. Will it be printed again??? Good question given the lousy 
> state of class book publishing these days?
> 
> On that book shoot I exposed 500 rolls of film all shot on automatic, ASA 
> 800 and never lost a frame from "Automatic exposure selection!" Regardless 
> of lighting conditions!
> 
> If you care to see a book on these incredible medical ladies when the 
> photog is using Leica M7's, on automatic and B&w film and all 
> available-light? As many of the LUG crew have done in the past, you will 
> find it very enlightening as this book comes with a "PHOTOGRAPHER'S 
> supplement" filling in all the details of how it was shot and why! Along 
> with an e-mail address where you are most welcome to ask all the questions 
> about the photography, who-- why?
> 
> cheers,
> ted 
> 
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