Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/17

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica users don't like change
From: "bdcolen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 10:34:24 -0500

Absolutely.

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From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Phong
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 9:06 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica users don't like change


nah, we want digital, even with manual focus.

- - Phong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Henry 
> Ting
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:54 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica users don't like change
> 
> 
> 
> Now if we can have AF as well....
> 
> --- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > my buddy bd Colen said:
> > >>> I know, Ted, I know - AE is God's gift to
> > photographers and an M7 would
> > > improve my life the way the washing machine and
> > drier improved the lives
> > > of housewives! :-)<<<<
> > 
> > Aw BD mon ami,
> > but the Leica M7 is the answer to many an exposure
> > prayer making photo
> > taking / making / printing so much more enjoyable
> > than with an M6 or any
> > other M camera. ;-)
> > 
> > Given we've just souped 56 rolls of B&W film and
> > each and every roll is
> > identical for exposure while using two M7's 21-35
> > -50 lenses all indoors and
> > various locations with in a building. The negatives
> > were beautiful to
> > contact print as every page required identical
> > exposure time, so we banged
> > off all the prints and souped about 25 sheets at a
> > time... . Sure beats the
> > heck out of fiddling one contact sheet at a time.
> > :-)
> > 
> > Think about time saved in making the exposures when
> > all were identical
> > without fiddling timer. And the developing? Why
> > imagine developing  25
> > contact sheets in the same time as souping one
> > contact sheet! ;-) Now that's
> > cool and cuts down darkroom time.
> > 
> > And yes I agree it's too bad the AE wasn't
> > incorporated many years ago,
> > however it wasn't. Now it is and without question it
> > works like a dream and
> > makes for greater concentration on subject and focus without 
> > aperture ring fiddling and lining up red arrow heads or red dot.
> > And yes I thought that
> > system was wonderful and I could make it work very
> > well, but I stand by my
> > early post comments that the M7 is the best M body
> > of the lot to date.  :-)
> > 
> > And if one is a people photographer and or earning
> > ones keep and working
> > quickly with people doing things it makes for a
> > greater number of usable
> > pictures of equal exposure.  However if one is into
> > rocks, ferns, peeling
> > paint and non breathing things, then any old Leica
> > will do! ;-) :-)
> > 
> > And B.D. old buddy, one of these days you'll come
> > around! ;-)
> > ted
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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