Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] The slippery slope - "digital"?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Thu Dec 21 20:52:07 2006

its all manual stop down metering, no auto aperture at all.  You use 
Aperture priority, but at the working aperture, not wide open with auto 
aperture metering.

Gene

-------------- Original message from "Frank Filippone" 
<red735i@earthlink.net>: -------------- 


> Certainly the price of R glass is pretty cheap ( compared with M 
> glass..)....It 
> would be a reason if you are an R user to go 
> Canon..... 
> 
> But do you get auto-aperture or is this a manual iris lens combo ( R glass 
> on 
> Canon Body with some adapter)? 
> 
> Frank Filippone 
> red735i@earthlink.net 
> 
> The down side is can't use my R glass on it. Otherwise I like the D200, 
> but not 
> AF, as it never wants to focus where I want it to 
> when focussing on birds in trees. 
> 
> 
> 
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