Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M7 Exposure
From: John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca>
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:40:10 -0700

I think it is more like an early eighties F3 with a viewfinder and a 
better flash system.

John Collier

On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 11:35 AM, bdcolen wrote:

> Right you are. Which is to say:
> IF the M6 is a 1953 camera updated with 1962 metering,
> THEN the M7 is a 1953 camera updated with 1972 metering.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of John Collier
>
> There is no matrix metering, no evaluative exposure, no nothing. The M7
> takes its readings from a light circle on the shutter curtain. That is
> it. It is the same as an M6 except the camera twirls the shutter dial
> for you; figuratively speaking of course, the shutter speed is changed
> electronically.

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