Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:53 PM 11/14/96 -0500, you wrote: >At 09:36 PM 11/14/96 -0500, Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote: > >>Sez Leica, among many others. Do I have to quote the M6 folder to you >>again?--Charlie > > >Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. > >It would probably do you some good to read the ENTIRE corpus of M6 >literature put out by Leica THEN to comment on it. The M6 has virtues far >beyond your narrow strictures and certainly isn't restricted to the role of >a glorified p&s. > >Marc > I have read tons of Leica literature. But that's not the point. You can, with varying degrees of awkwardness, use the M6 for all sorts of photographic purposes. But the central purpose of the instrument--and what the Leica stars do with it--does require quick handling and shooting, and my point was that Leica is falling behind in that area because of their failure to upgrade the metering and exposure systems. BTW, taking pictures quickly is not to be using a glorified P&S; indeed, one of the troubles with P&S cameras is their slow action after one pushes the shutter release, because they don't actually move the lens into focus until you do that. The M's are much faster. Charles E. Love, Jr. CEL14@CORNELL.EDU