Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ben wrote >It seems to me any photographer who lets the camera decide things when >it shouldn't must be very weak minded indeed. I totally agree with this point. >And for all those all-manual, the-photographer-can-do-it-perfect >fanatics - how can you be pleased when you can't set aperture and >shutter in 1/3 increments with a 6 stop scale in the viewfinder like the >"overly featured" opposition? I don't know that I consider my self a "Photographer can do it perfect fanatic"; however I do prefer to shoot in manual mode. It has been my experience that what ever I am shooting and the reading the camera is giving me for the way I have the image framed is seldom the correct exposure. I take a meter reading (95% of the time with an incident meter, other times I set the camera on spot and meter the relevant areas and average the exposure with a bias to what I want "correct") and shoot away with the camera set on what I determine to be the correct exposure. I used to shoot with the EOS gear and personally have found I am enjoying using my equipment more now that I have fewer electronic interfaces to go through to operate the camera. Don't get me wrong I know from first hand experience that the EOS 1 is a great camera and is ergonomically very handy, I just prefer the old fashioned shutter speed dials on the R8, and other R cameras. I *DO NOT* like the unavailability of the motor and think that this was a mistake on Leica's part to release a camera of the R8's stature with no motor readily available. I do like the 1/2 stop shutter speeds and find them handy, mainly because I have a 600 4.5 lens that is a straight 4.5 and to vary exposure I must change the shutter speeds and I shoot almost exclusively chrome. >Why not just admit you use Leica despite the features rather than >because of them? If not I hope you shoot with an R6.2. Actually I do also shoot with an R6 with motor and it is one of my all time favorite camera bodies..... Harrison McClary http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto