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YOUR LETTERS

the middle of that

often-fast road, and

especially near to a bend.

Adrian Lewis

Inspired by Jeremy

I started a subscription to

AP in March this year with

a view to buying a suitable

digital camera after many

happy years of using my

Minolta XG-M, alas now

lying dormant.  I was still

in a quandary when I read

Jeremy Walker’s

inspirational article (AP 27

June) Nikon to Leica. I

read the article many

times over and realised

that a modern digital

camera that is founded

upon traditional values

with quality and simplicity

as its de ning features,

was the one for me.  So I

decided to take the plunge

and bought a Leica M10

with 35mm Voigtlander

F1.4 lens. I am so lucky to

have had a legacy from my

late mother to enable me

to do this. This photo

(above) is one of my  rst

attempts at street

photography, guided by the

teaching of Thorsten von

Overgaard.

Peter Rivers

No interest in video

Is it just me or do I detect

a shift into  lm making?

With Sony’s Alpha 7S III

hot on the heels of

Canon’s EOS R5, and

many other manufacturers

pushing the video aspects

of their latest expensive

toys, aren’t we forgetting

the basics here? I, and

many others that I talk to

at photography club level,

have not the slightest

interest in  lm making.

I’m in my early 70s and

an avid amateur who took

up photography to take

photographs. I know

nothing of  lm making but

if I had been interested I

would have invested in a

video camera years ago.

I object to paying for

something that I will never

use, and am bitterly

disappointed in the push

towards this medium. 

How about Canon

making an R5 Still? Or

Sony Alpha 7S III Still?

Just forget the movie tech

and let photographers get

back to doing what we do,

at a reasonable price.

Terence Robinson 

Your fellow camera club

members are probably of

a similar demographic to

you, but you represent just

a tiny fraction of the

global camera market.

Younger photographers

today want to shoot both

stills and video, so adding

video to a camera means

it will sell more, making

the unit cost lower. No

video ability restricts a

camera’s potential sales

and the more niche a

market for something the

costlier it will be. Also

bear in mind these are

professional cameras and

any pro working today

who isn’t prepared to

shoot video may as well

pack up and go home.

You might be able to

re-assign the video button

to another function. If not,

just ignore it. Do you

object to paying for

Shutter Priority mode

because you only ever use

Aperture Priority?

Incidentally the Sony A7S

series is speci cally

aimed at videographers.

Both Sony’s A7 series and

A7R series are for the

stills photographers.

Taken by Peter Rivers on his Leica M10 Voigtlander-M 35mm f/1.4, 1/4sec at f/4.0, ISO 800

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