Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/24

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Subject: [Leica] Ref:OT Nikons new cameras
From: feli2 at earthlink.net (Feli)
Date: Sun Apr 24 15:51:38 2005
References: <200504241645.j3OGfUjZ015817@server1.waverley.reid.org> <426C2208.2060807@telefonica.net>

How about battery life? I've heard that many pros use the F100, because 
the F5
eats batteries like popcorn. Anyone?

feli

On Apr 24, 2005, at 3:47 PM, F?lix L?pez de Maturana wrote:

> Chris
>
> I think not. The F5 sales figures have been on the level of the F pro 
> Nikon cameras. F100 is a advanced amateur not a pro however many pros 
> had it as a backup or even as a main camera but the building of the F5 
> is definitely much more robust. In every feature the F5 is better 
> camera excepting the red illuminated focusing points that in the F5 
> are grey and more difficult of seeing. I have not -yet- the F6 but I 
> own two F, two F2 and one F3,F4 and F5 and the later is, by far, the 
> best. Nikon optics are different from Leica which does not mean every 
> time worse.
>
> Felix
>
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Replies: Reply from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Re:OT Nikons new cameras)
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