Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alright, then: what about the Canon G9? All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Amard" <phamard@numericable.fr> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon G9 or Leica M8? Mark > Leica know how to make things simple - have a look at the > Digilux3/Panasonic L1; you hit the ISO button (left thumb), turn the > wheel with the right thumb with your eyes still on the subject, half press > the shutter, you're done. > Why not on other bodies then? > Phil...X > > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >>>Mark, if that works for you that's great. It would certainly be very >>>welcome on a camera like the M8 where it takes 2 button pushes, 1 >>>thumb wheel twirl and then another button push to set ISO. I just >>>don't think the camera performance is where I think it should be for >>>that feature. At least not yet. >>> >>>Len >>> >>> >> >>The issue is you have to go into the menu to change it. >>That's not the greatest. Doable. But not as fast as it should be. >>I predict that auto ISO will be a big thing and a company will come out >>soon >>which will have you direct control on it. Or give you and option of >>assigning a button to it that's a big thing now. Assigning buttons to >>things. >>Leica is big on this. >>Being the first in NOT making its customers go through menus. >>But be hands on like the old days. With controls you can see and feel in >>real time in the real world. >> >>Listening Wetzlar? I think they are. >> >>Notice I saw Wetzlar not Solms. Getting ahead of myself as usual. >> >>The 40-acre Leica Park in Wetzlar >> >>Not a topic on the LUG yet! >> >>AMAZING! >> >>Mark William Rabiner >>markrabiner.com >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >