Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I pretty much figured it out by spending most of a day and half of the battery charge playing with the menus. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. > On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:24 AM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >> >> My M (240) arrived Friday. Of course, unpacking a new arrival from Leica >> is a great adventure. It will be hard for me to discard all those lovely >> box compartments. >> >> Unlike the excellent manual that came with the M9, I think this manual is >> an atrocity. I speak as a former professional. In my second year (of ten) >> at Apple, I decided to write a manual for a piece of internally-developed >> software with a totally incompetent one-page description. Because I had >> to use the software, I had to figure out how it worked by trial and error. >> >> Those were the days when managers could be imaginative. My reward for >> this manual was three bottles of wine a month for a year. And, I was >> appointed editor of the release notes of this department?s product?three >> releases a year. The notes grew to some 350 pages. >> >> So I speak from experience when I call the M manual an atrocity. > > > > > totally agree? > > so much so that I got rid of the camera. > > > And I rarely read a manual, but in this case the more you need it, the > worse it is. > > > s > > > > > > >> The biggest fault is a failure to explain clearly the two function of the >> ?Set? button: a) to establish a choice among alternatives, and b) to >> provide a supplementary menu of stuff that one wants to access quickly, >> such as ISO or Exposure Compensation. >> >> Other than that, It is a most lovely camera, a clear improvement over the >> M9, and I?m delighted with it. >> >> Herb >> >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> 650-326-8204 >> >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >