Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:24 AM 30-03-98 -0500, you wrote: >Dan - > >While I'm sold on the Leica Ms and believe that they're the best cameras >for me - if for no other reason than that my aging eye does much better >with a range finder than with a reflex - and that the lenses are >spectacular, I'd suggest that you put an F5 through its considerable paces >before you write off some of its amazing performance as advertising hype. > >My son, who is finally graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine >Arts seems to have become a skateboarding photographer - don't say it - and >shoots with an F5, an F3, and multiple flashes. The metering, both flash >and available light, on the F5 truly has to be seen to be believed. [snip] I don't doubt that the autoexposure capabilities of the F5 are superior to the F3, I am comparing the F5 to the R8, or any other modern camera with matrix metering. I am sure my Minolta 9xi will blow the F3 out of the water, if I had to rely on auto-exposure. It is the RGB and shutter self-adjusting nonsence that I am aiming my arrows at. When I first bought my 9xi, I loaded it up with slide film and went to the botanical gardens to see how far I could push the camera. I set the camera to Programmed Automatic, and chose the weirdest lighting condistions I could find. EVERY frame on the roll was properly exposed, without exception. Backlit, high contrast, you name it. So when I hear about some new quadzillion cell RGBXWZ matrix DDD metering system that has to be seen to believed, I ask, " how can it improve upon perfection?". And I must add, the simple metering system of the M6 (or any modern TTL metering camera), if used with just a little thought, can easily equal the above super-duper metering systems. Dan C. Dan C.