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 asked a bunch of people, they all said it was easy, apparantly they hadn?t read the manual. s > On Jul 14, 2015, at 6:23 PM, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: > > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information