[Leica] Re: compensation (was Real M7 hands on...)

["Rei Shinozuka" <shino@panix.com>]

i can never compensate for unpredictable things like kids and animals
with slow cameras (like the contax T2).  once i was fooling around at
work and took a picture of a coworker jumping off a file cabinet from
below (yeah that's what us hard-working hard-playing wall-streeters do
for fun).  i recall pushing the artificial sapphire button and then
yelling "jump!"   after a few tries, the photo turned out perfectly.

as for driving two cars, i was taking my family back from a 2-hour
drive on the shore this weekend in the family truckster chevy
suburban.  everyone was asleep but me.  i drove up a road i drive up 
every day in my commute with the corvette, a 45 degree turn on an uphill.  
damn near rolled the thing over.  and my wife says my car is unsafe.

as for the M7, i didn't think i was in the market, but erwin's review 
was quite intriguing.  now if they could only make one with the proper-sized
top plate and the shutter speed going the right way...

if the M7 made the exposure reading right before tripping the shutter, it
would be a heck of a camera in use with conjunction with the viso.
an anachronistic pairing indeed.

- -rei


> From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
> 
> Austin, the compensation is like driving two different cars.  If you drive a
> pickup truck and a Porsche 930 your approach to driving will be different.
> With the truck you will give yourself more room to brake and not use your
> right foot to navigate traffic.  With the Porsche you can leave yourself
> very little room to stop and can frequently move through even dense traffic
> with the loud pedal.  Likewise, with a common SLR like the Canon Rebel the
> clock time can go to 200ms, so if you are trying to capture your children in
> motion you will try to anticipate what will happen in 1/5 of a second and
> time your shutter release accordingly.
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