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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Another thing I noticed about the M7
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 19:37:36 -0700
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Tina Manley wrote:
>>  The M7 should help if I leave the aperture at 1.0 and keep
> cocking that winder!<<<

Tina,
I did just that yesterday, set the big old f 1.0 and concentrated on fine
focusing right for the edge and never gave the shutter speed a thought at
ASA 800. Certainly after I saw the first time and it was close to the 1/1000
in doors OR. ;-)

It seems one is a tad more at living dangerously shooting with that touch of
AE. ;-) My results have been so impressive I tend to be a little more
imaginative in aperture selection. As I said, I went f 1.0 deliberately only
because I could completely concentrate on camera handling without red
arrowhead fiddling.

Sorry I don't mean "fiddling" in a put down to doing the adjustments, but I
set the aperture and then completely concentrated on exactly where the focus
needed to be and when it was right I tripped the shutter. Not a further
thought other than shoot.

I suppose I could've done the same thing with the M6, however it didn't
occur to me in the past in such a, what might be considered "reckless
abandon" and I'd be reluctant to shoot in a similar manner because the M7
was so easy to handle.
ted

Ted Grant Photography Limited
www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant


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