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>>205297 Just a basic knowledge of photography and a look at the specifications would tell you what the differences were.
Smaller maximum aperture on the lens he's using: more depth of field, of course. Smaller sensor: more depth of field, of course. More noise, of course. Not weathersealed and digital: going to get its ass handed to it in a desert, of course.
The metering thing and how he was hung up on the JPEGs really is what bugged me more than anything else. The film Leicas he shot with weren't M7s. They were M4s, with no meter at all, and IIRC he said he had an M6, which has a meter but .no autoexposure. It shouldn't have been a big bitch for him to use it in manual.
(The M8's meter is the same as the M7, so everything he said there would apply to it, too, by the way.)
The JPEG thing... it takes just a few minutes to run a batch process on raw files. He could do it while taking a piss. I can, if I rush through it and don't be the anal perfectionist I am, manually do a raw file in a minute and have it through Camera Raw (Camera Raw, not Lightroom, which I hear is even faster) and saved as a TIFF.
And again, compare it to his film Leica: he or somebody would have to develop that film. No such thing as a Polaroid back for an M4.
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