What I hate about my Leica CL and Minolta CLE is that I can not shoot 400/800/1600 iso daylight on the beach and late afternoon/evening with the same camera. I always have to have 2 cameras. I need 4000 shutter speed to do that. I am sick of caring 2/3 cameras with me. And while my canon 40mm is very good and small my minolta and canon 28mm lenses are not even close to my elmarit.
If it was not for the size I would not even use a range finder. Composition with SLR is fine for me. But when I have to carry 2 rangefinder cameras "1 with low iso and 1 with high iso" it defeats the size advantage.
So weird because I was shooting my M7 w/ Kentmere 400 rated at ISO 1600 in bright sunlight. At ISO 1600.
This was an experiment. I was looking for big, chunky grain and was curious to see if pushing Kentmere 400 to 1600 with DF96 would do it. 6 minutes dev time @ 90. Here is a selection of images from that roll (Leica M7, CV 40 1.2) taken in blazing sunlight and very dim indoor conditions. I...
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Now if you want to use your cameras wide open, you can do that by using an ND filter. Those things work no matter what film you use. It just screws onto the front of your lens, or you can complain and act like there is no rational and cheap solution.
I have an Nikon F6 w the 1/8000 speed. And yet I managed to figure out how to use an ND filter on my Leicas. Your next argument? Don't want to carry an ND filter? Well, that's on you.
Kinda takes the wind out of your sales complaining about the new M6, eh?