Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/06

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Subject: [Leica] Ten years behind? I think not.
From: fmaturana at euskalnet.net (Felix Lopez de Maturana)
Date: Thu May 6 13:11:17 2004
 
>The F5's exposure system is completely different, although to be honest, I
>don't find the results really any better than the F90's or F4's, or, from
>what I have seen, the R8 or 9's. The overexposure of the FA is long gone.


Henning

I've used the Nikon FA with very good results with Velvia film not long ago.
My R8 meters perfectly as far as, like I am, you are used to a center
weighted meter, more if 40/60 as, approximately, the Nikon F3, but the Nikon
F5 metering concept is really fool-proof. You don't need calculate anything
and photographs are systematically dead on. I have photographed many
thousands with the F5 and the number mistakes are less than my hands
fingers. 

I still believe that R8 is not a great camera but his lenses, most of them,
are. 

Felix
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