Can't agree with those recent comments. Firstly, it's an Aperture Priority system. Secondly, IT doesn't determine the exposure, YOU do. You can either follow the shutter/f-stop recommended by the camera, Or switch to full manual.
Besides, the way the M6 works IS a shutter priority system. You just turn knobs until the little arrow thingies go away. I'm still lost as to how that, somehow, is a more noble or valid manner of determining how much light hits your film.
The 7 just has BOTH capabilities. Had it been released twenty years ago, do you really think there'd be this much resentment over a little 'automation' today? And, it's really not 'automation.' On Auto, maybe you change the aperture ring to get 'proper' exposure. On Manual, maybe you change the aperture ring to get 'proper' exposure. Is this forum so ridiculous as to then require each photograph to be tagged with information regarding how exposure was achieved?
Thirdly, how can anyone else determine which or how many "basic requirements" one "will ever require in a rangefinder?" Sounds preachy to me. Shouldn't one speak solely for oneself and one's own needs/wants? It could just as easily be said that a non-metering camera would satisfy all the "basic requirements." But, apparently, y'all dig your 6's meter. Not a luxury, in most folks' minds. If you ask me, Ap Priority is pretty basic, too.
Thirdly, how often are you people really needing these mechanical only shutter speeds? Somehow it's easy enough to carry the ten rolls of film that are exposed on the most banal of subject matter, but it's too much to carry a spare set of batteries near the end of the power cycle.
It's frightening to read this tripe. I'm loathe to become "one of you." It's just a camera. If you really need to feel you're doing more with your so-called photography, by your logic, why not build your own box, and coat your own paper, and really get back to what "True Photography is All About?"
Apologies in advance. Sorry. This has been building, and mixed with my back pain....