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Subject: [Leica] M
From: kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner)
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:23:49 -0700
References: <C2C635AB-8A0F-4B28-BAA2-110F0D7005DD@acm.org> <765C272A-F79D-465B-8DA3-A81B6D0EB831@gmail.com>

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:
> 
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>> 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.
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> totally agree?
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> so much so that I got rid of the camera.
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> And I rarely read a manual, but in this case the more you need it, the 
> worse it is.
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> s
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>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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