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From: Bob Rapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: MZ-S and a confession
>
> But my rationale is, a camera is a light-tite box with a finder and
shutter.
> I fell for the gadgets of the later cameras when I bought a SF1n and later
a
> PZ1p. The former was stolen and the latter sold to make way for the LX.
Why
> the change in attitude? One weekend, I was having a "bad hair" day and was
> questioning the PZ1p and the 28-105 power-zoom lens. The purpose was to
> photograph some old stone churches (one of my favourite topics). I dug out
> my old Spotmatic with a 55 and 35mm lens. I proceeded to take the same
> pictures with both cameras. The results could be expected, the Spotmatics
> images were higher quality but the real surprise was the consistency of
> exposure on the negatives. The Spotmatic was actually more uniform.
I had a similar experience when going from my LX to a M6. At first I was
sort of bummed because I didn't have aperature priority, but then I noticed
that my exposures were always dead on with the Leica. The difference was
that I was involved in every decision instead of letting the camera do it
for me. From then on I shot the LX in manual whenever I could...
Isaac
> Bob Rapp
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