Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Barbour wrote: Eyeballing a Leica R7 mint..... good price... like the look , size, and feel of it, so those of you who use this baby, please tell me your thoughts about it... I prefer a smaller, lighter, jobbie than an R8...as I usually use an M6....Steve ====================================================================== FWIW, you can see a few comments on the R7 at the Leica Q&A Forum: http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=003IXc I used to have an R7 before I replaced it with an R8. I don't regret making the move but I enjoyed using my R7 and it had many good features that suited my requirements. I found its metering to be very accurate. TTL flash features were very good, especially fill-in flash in T (shutter priority) mode. I didn't find the selectable shutter speed range from 4 sec to 1/2000 sec, in half steps, to be too limiting. On the downside, the R7 viewfinder information was a little difficult to read because the red LEDs were faint and small. Film loading was more fiddly than with the R8 but not too bad. Flash synch was slow, at only 1/100 sec. The size and shape of the R7 body did not fit my hands as comfortably as the R8 (but YMMV). I also found that, if I switched between modes (say, from P to T) with the film already advanced and the camera switched on, it would sometimes cause the shutter to fire inadvertently; however, this was probably a fault unique to my particular R7. Regards, ===== Ray "The trouble with resisting temptation is you never know when you'll get another chance!" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/