On 2 Jun 2003 at 14:46, T Rittenhouse wrote: > Where did you hear that? No one I ever knew claimed loading film in a Leica was > instinctive. > > Very well built, a pleasure to handle, sharp lenses, the world's best > rangefinder, yes. But, instinctive? Not likely.
Sure it's not initially nor is any camera but all M series cameras have a life sized picture of the load procedure on their base (for the dummies) and if you do as it shows you're likely never to have a bad load and after the second time it's no slower to load than any other camera. Pre-M well that's another story from a previous era in film tech. > I am glad I am not one of you old geezers, so I don't need AF. Of course, my > opinion is that most people never learned to focus a camera, and therefore > fiddle with it forever. I will admit AF works better for them. I would estimate AF is actually useful to me in less than 10% of shots that I make. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
