Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/19/99 8:08:19 AM, you wrote: > >But anyhow. If the shutter speed is 1/1000 or only 1/650 what the heck >does that mean even on slides?? Nothing! But that this camera has the >best lenses you can buy for money, that it is unspectacular and doesn´t >pull attention to you while taking some pictures of a delicate >situation, and that this camera works by -25° degrees celcius and in the >desert at 55° and never lets you down if dry or wet weather and that the >equipment is lighter and smaller than most of the other high quality >equiment, that are the important things of this dinosaur of camera >legacy not that silly inacuracy of bullshit. > >- -- >Deniz Saylan >Photojournalist i could not agree more. Shutters able to give you 131st of a second instead of 125th may sound more accurate, but such a small difference does not matter much in this era of wide-lattitude film able to deal with 4-stop over and 2-stop under exposure and still give printable results. What is more critical for the Leica M is the usability of it as a tool, as enumerated by mr Saylan here. A pro able to appreciate a Leica doesn't need internal metering at all, knowing too well it's limitations, and an auto shutter only compounds them. Pity -- a pro-level point and shoot. c trentelman Ogden, Utah