Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]De: Dave Richards <dprichards@uswest.net> snip >I submit that the fully manual camera offers something that the fully >automatic camera cannot, and that is the ability to look at a subject and >decide for yourself how it should be photographed, without reliance on wat >an engineer or programmer considers an acceptable exposure most of the time. > >When I moved to Leica I gave up the convenience of an automatic Nikon. >Except that Nikon lenses are visibly inferior to Leica optics, the N90 is >considerably more convenient, and best of all, can rip through a >36-exposure roll of Kodachrome in less than 8 second. But my M6 has made >me think, which is more than I have been able to say about a Nikon since I >sold my Nikkormat FTN. > OK, take the M90 press mode and turn the control wheel, or whatever it is called, until the display says M, and You have a fully manual camera. And funny, but for me its the other way around, when I use the F90 I have to think alot, what exposure mode, focus mode, metering mode and so on, with the M6 I just take pictures. /Anders Nygren