Re: [Leica] Leica users don't like change

[Henry Ting <henryting10@yahoo.com>]

Now if we can have AF as well....

- --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> my buddy bd Colen said:
> >>> I know, Ted, I know - AE is God's gift to
> photographers and an M7 would
> > improve my life the way the washing machine and
> drier improved the lives
> > of housewives! :-)<<<<
> 
> Aw BD mon ami,
> but the Leica M7 is the answer to many an exposure
> prayer making photo
> taking / making / printing so much more enjoyable
> than with an M6 or any
> other M camera. ;-)
> 
> Given we've just souped 56 rolls of B&W film and
> each and every roll is
> identical for exposure while using two M7's 21-35
> -50 lenses all indoors and
> various locations with in a building. The negatives
> were beautiful to
> contact print as every page required identical
> exposure time, so we banged
> off all the prints and souped about 25 sheets at a
> time... . Sure beats the
> heck out of fiddling one contact sheet at a time.
> :-)
> 
> Think about time saved in making the exposures when
> all were identical
> without fiddling timer. And the developing? Why
> imagine developing  25
> contact sheets in the same time as souping one
> contact sheet! ;-) Now that's
> cool and cuts down darkroom time.
> 
> And yes I agree it's too bad the AE wasn't
> incorporated many years ago,
> however it wasn't. Now it is and without question it
> works like a dream and
> makes for greater concentration on subject and focus
> without aperture ring
> fiddling and lining up red arrow heads or red dot.
> And yes I thought that
> system was wonderful and I could make it work very
> well, but I stand by my
> early post comments that the M7 is the best M body
> of the lot to date.  :-)
> 
> And if one is a people photographer and or earning
> ones keep and working
> quickly with people doing things it makes for a
> greater number of usable
> pictures of equal exposure.  However if one is into
> rocks, ferns, peeling
> paint and non breathing things, then any old Leica
> will do! ;-) :-)
> 
> And B.D. old buddy, one of these days you'll come
> around! ;-)
> ted
> 
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