On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > Not to put too fine a point on it, the M7 is a recent Leica, > only a year or two (at most) on the market. 20+ years ago > you'd have been using an M4-series, or older.
What he meant is he hasn't used a rangefinder in 20+ years. > One thing that makes a Leica (and other RF cameras) better > than an SLR for street photography (God, do I hate that term > and description!) is that you can see outside the frame > lines, which means you can see what's coming into the frame > and what's surrounding it, allowing for better composition > in fast changing environments. Can you explain this a bit more please? Why is aiming different? The other thing I would add is that with a wideangle lens and assuming the right light conditions, one can set the aperture to 8 or 11 and forget about focusing, just think about the picture. Kostas
