[Leica] M9 reviewers drawn from the "unwashed masses"

[red735i at earthlink.net (Frank Filippone)]

I never said "difficult"... I said PITA.  And I said not "spontaneous" or
words to that effect.....

If you are going to shoot moving objects, whether they be people, kids,
birdies, sports, airplanes or a myriad of other moving targets, stopping
down take time and attention away from your major subject.  You will miss
shots while you are busy spinning aperture rings.

And to the PITA comment, you must remember the procedure every time you
shoot an image.

I shoot LF and MF cameras, on tripods, of non-moving things.  I enjoy it.  I
even use a Hasselblad Flexbody with roll film.  Lots of steps, lots of
things to forget in the heat of the moment.  I enjoy that too.  But my
objects do not move.  There is really no rush required.

What I do not enjoy is things that get in the way of taking spontaneous
shots.... and stopping down a lens manually is about the top of the heap..

As I said, YMMV.

Frank Filippone
red735i at earthlink.net



I must be missing something.  I use Leica-R lenses on my Olympus E-510, with

an adapter, and I don't find it to be a problem.  I select "aperture 
preferred", ISO, and focus and compose with the lens wide open.  Then, 
without taking the camera away from my eye, I rotate the aperture ring to 
around 5.6 to 8, let the auto-exposure sensor do its thing, and press the 
shutter release.  What is difficult about that?

Jim Nichols