Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]M7 and batteries...wow...a really well made Minolta CLE...cool a competitor to the slow selling (but well made) Konica Hexar RF. To me and to millions of others, I am sure, one of the strong points of the M Leica, the Nikon F, F2 or Fm2/2n/3a etc has been the fact that you can keep on shooting when the batteries die. On a photo safari in Tanzania a couple years ago, many very good shooters brought their EOS and F4/5/N90 Nikons and they each were well prepared with two or three sets of spare batteries. 14 days in high heat, high humidity, high dust, and constant hunt AF and fast MD driving long lenses killed batteries... And no matter how nice the hunting lodge within 20 minutes of our arrival they were out of even carbon zinc cells...let alone 123As. At night at the bar we watched people reload Kodak disposables... The lucky gentleman with the Pentax LX was able to keep shooting but the rest were severely hampered in a real world situation even though they had prepared in advance. if the M7 replaces the M6, I can only think back to the error Leitz made when I was a child and the M5 replaced the M4 only to be replaced by the M4. I HOPE that the M7 shutter is like that of the FM3a or at least like a Pentax LX or Canon NEW F1 with the majority of speeds being mechanically governed. I hope the M7 is not a the Leica equal to an Nikon EM. Mark - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html