Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M5
From: thibault collin <tc-lnc@u-picardie.fr>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:26:42 +0100

Hi Henning,

How do you meter with the M4s?

At 23:19 16/02/1999 -0800, you wrote:
>This adoration of the M5 escapes me. I bought one when it came out, and
>kept it for about 5 years. The pictures I took were about as good as the
>ones I got from my M4's, and I did appreciate the meter and the shutter
>speeds in the finder. Things I did _not_ appreciate were the bottom rewind
>crank, both strap lugs at one end (fixed later of course), the loose
>feeling shutter dial, the noticeably larger and less comfortable shape, the
>lack of 1sec on the dial, and most of all, the clatter of the semaphore,
>which also influences the wind feel. In fact 'feel' is the downfall of the
>M5, unless you just don't like the feel of the traditional M body. I found
>eventually that I was using my M4's more and more, and so sold the M5 and
>got some M4-2's (sometimes you just can't get ahead :-)).
>
>I now use M6's and M4's, and find that although the overall quality of the
>M6 is maybe not quite up to the M4's, at least it feels as good, the meter
>responds promptly at all light levels, and I know why the M6 sold a lot
>better than the M5.
>
>   *            Henning J. Wulff
>  /|\      Wulff Photography & Design
> /###\   mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com
> |[ ]|     http://www.archiphoto.com
>
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