![]() ![]() ![]() Things began to change during the late 1990s. ![]() During the 1990s, Leica began introducing new aspherical versions of its lenses, becoming pretty much the then-best commercially-available 35mm camera lenses ever produced. The closest competition to a Leica M6 may have been the autofocus Contax G1 (1994) and G2 (1996). The mechanical 1984-1998 Leica M6, essentially an M4 with a simple built-in LED arrow-driven TTL light meter, had checked most boxes for traditional Leica users, with some boldly proclaiming that they had no use for the meter. Leica had outlasted every other film rangefinder camera by a matter of decades. But I did want to share a few thoughts.īy the mid-1990s, the Leica M system had no competitors in the 35mm rangefinder world. There is certainly enough information on Leicas out there. Having owned and used an M7 for about 15 years now, I have had very little interest in writing a formal review for it. However, despite these noted improvements over the 1998 M6TTL, the M7 was certainly more evolutionary than revolutionary. The M7 is the only M film camera with an electronic shutter, DX film coding, and the capability for aperture-priority autoexposure with exposure lock through a half-press of the shutter button. Introduced at the end of the film camera era, the 2002 Leica M7 is a wonderful yet imperfect camera.
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