> > [Shel enjoys his Leica] What a lovely experience ... > > I could focus wherever I pleased (even where there was nothing to focus > upon!), not where some sensor told me to;
Oddly enough, you can do this with a *ist-D, too. > I decided if the focus was > correct or not, not some sensor that glows in the viewfinder; And this ... > I could > over or under expose without changing modes; And this ... > I could even make a double > exposure without too much trouble, although the Leica is not the best > camera for that. A good, ol' Spottie or MX, or some such similar relic > makes doing that a (literal) snap. I guess with a digital camera one > would make a double exposure using post processing techniques <LOL> Guess what? The *ist-D lets you do this in-camera, too. It's probably at least as easy as doing it on the Leica. > I'm hesitant to suggest that everyone go out and use an old camera. > There are many people here, and elsewhere, who are wedded to the new > technologies, and far too many who wouldn't even know how to use a > camera such as a Leica or a Pentax H3v. Mind you, that's not a slur ... > I have trouble with many of the newer cameras. It's just what one has > become accustomed to. Just the idea that I have to turn it on and get > into a shooting mode gives me apoplectic fits. Well, you *do* have to turn the *ist-D on. But unlike most other digital cameras it doesn't have a shooting mode and a playback mode; it's ready to go almost as soon as you turn it on. The thing you'd probably like least about a *ist-D set in all-manual mode (apart from the in-viewfinder displays telling you whether the camera agreed with your choices) is having to set the aperture with a thumbwheel on the body if you wanted the meter coupling to be right.
