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From: "Alin Flaider" <
Subject: Re: Camera Recommendations
> tom wrote:
>
> t> Could you elaborate on why the N80 and Canons are crippled?
The Elan 7
> t> kind of looks nice, spec-wise. I like the quiet mode
option.
>
> The Elan has no spot meter, that is forget slide film,
> concerts/available light. F80 has that LCD overlapping the
viewfinder
> that makes me question its brightness. Generally whatever
camera I find
> interesting it's huge, heavy, battery-drainer... so I always
fall-back
> gladly to my trusty MZ-5N.
Gosh, I regularly shoot slide film with no spot meter, Back in
the primitive era, I used an camera with centeweighted metering
to shoot Kodachrome, which is a notoriously twitchy film. Back
in my concert shooting days, I did some wonderful work with that
same dinosaur of a Nikon F2s under the most horrid lighting
conditions.
I hardly think that no spotmeter cripples a camera. In fact,
for a beginner photographer, the spotmeter may well cripple the
photographer. They do require some knowedge to operate properly.
Anyway, I respectfully disagree.
OTOH, if a camera has a significant part of the viewfinder
covered by a display, or is so oversized as to be unhandy to
use, that would, IMHO, be crippled.
William Robb
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