:-) I never had an M8, I started my digital Leicas with the M9 in 2012. I was somewhat ambivalent towards it due to its perceptual sluggishness (it wasn't really sluggish, but the noisy shutter re-cock sound made it feel that way). Moving to the M-P typ 240 in 2015 was a wonderful upgrade and answered most of the issues that I had with the M9; to me, that was the digital M that realized the feel I expected. The M/M-D typ 262 is a refinement on the typ 240 in terms of its feel and sensor performance, and the M-D suits me extremely well—the lack of LCD and buttons simply makes the camera more of a pleasure to hold and use. It feels very akin to using my M4-2 film body, albeit slightly larger and heavier, and with a built-in meter.
I'm thoroughly delighted by it! G > On Jul 16, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > > You Puritan, you! > > I've been really enjoying using the M this week, and I'll try and post some > more snaps this weekend. It's an entirely different, and much better, > experience than using the M8. > > I've mainly been using an incident meter rather than the camera's meter, and > chimping the first shot at a given reading just to check. > > I really like this camera. > > B > >> On 16 Jul 2016, at 13:24, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I think maybe once, the first time I used the M-D. >> >> I've always turned auto-review off and have not built up a reflex of >> chimping with my digital cameras; I've also been switching back and forth >> between digital and film cameras quite a bit the past couple of years, so >> it's not been something I'm prone to doing out of habit. >> >> With the M-P, I'm often looking at the LCD though to see what ISO and EC >> setting is current on the camera. I find with the M-D, I look at the ISO >> dial now and then and have used the EC setting a bit less—I use the meter, >> hold shutter release, frame, and release shutter technique more of the time. >> That's how I used to shoot with the Nikon F3 and FE2, because the EC setting >> was clumsy to work. >> >> G >> >>> On Jul 15, 2016, at 11:42 PM, Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> How many times have you tried chimping and gone "D'oh!" when you see only >>> the ISO dial? >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
