Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Adam Bridge <abridge at mac.com> wrote: > In another thread there's a discussion related to this one. But I've been > trying to distill my thoughts so I'll offer them here. > . when we travel I can hand it to someone and ask them to take my photo > beside Jan and the person I hand it to will be able to look at the screen > on the back and take the picture. Or even look through the "viewfinder". I > cannot do that with the M8. > What I do with an M Leica is to have the person who is going to take the picture stand where they will be, and I stand where I will be. I focus the camera, then hand it to them. They take the picture. I keep my Pentax kr in the car for all the other reasons you point out, but have taken just ten pictures with it since December, when I got the new M9. -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ http://sonc-hegr.tumblr.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana USA