Re: Manual cameras in general

After sending my D100 in for some work, I rediscovered the viewfinder of my F. 
Wow! It is bright and clear and I can focus with it without squinting.  Amazing.

I wish the D100 had a better viewfinder.  

The battery life of the camera doesn't bother me, but I have to worry about the 
image tank power supply, the laptop power supply, and the camera battery 
recharger when traveling.  Lots of misc cables in the bag too.  The logistics 
with digital  are more complicated (for me at least) than traveling with film.

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Klein <leicaman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Jun 29, 2004 1:28 PM
To: Leica-Users-Digest <leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Manual cameras in general

As I work every single day at work with a highly electronic, yet wonderful
Canon Eos 1d body, I have been using my Leica M4-2 body, and my fleet of
perfectly functioning Nikon F, and FTN bodies along with the manual focus
lenses and so forth that I have during my non-work hours.

What I don't miss is having to worry excessively about the life left in a
given digital camera battery.  I think that makes it in the one less thing
to worry about dept.  I also really appreciate thinking of picking a shutter
speed and then either calculating or using a meter for the f stop.  There
are times I think it is every bit as fast as the latest and greatest.

Not that I am fully analog with this gear.  The images get scanned with my
film scanner and redied for output via a fuji frontier printer.  The power
of Photoshop is just to convienient for me.

I think for commercial applications film, except for specialized conditions
really dead.    But for my puttering around home, its great.

These are merely my observations...

gck


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