Re: [Leica] New shutter-speed dial

["Bryan Caldwell" <bcaldwell@softcom.net>]

>>Real Leica M photographers have been turning the shutter speed dial one
way for decades<<

As opposed to "un-real" Leica M photographers?


Bryan


- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Johnston" <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2000 2:46 AM
Subject: [Leica] New shutter-speed dial


> >>>Same direction as an R, and "the way the little red arrows point".  I
> 
> understand it, I'm just not used to it.<<<
> 
> Jeff,
> It's a very discouraging sign, in my opinion. It's the kind of design
> decision that would be made by people who aren't familiar with what it
> is to learn a camera and get to know its operation like second nature.
> Real Leica M photographers have been turning the shutter speed dial one
> way for decades; making them switch now is like making an American move
> to England and drive on the wrong side of the road. It doesn't make any
> difference which way it turns, but it does make a difference to people
> who have learned to operate their cameras without thinking.
> 
> This is the kind of sign that shows that the people making these
> decisions are not photographers. That's an endemic disease in much of
> the photo industry, and I'm sorry to see such sure evidence that it
> exists at Leica too.
> 
> :-(
> 
> --Mike
>