Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello LUG: I'm new here... been lurking for about a week and have finally decided to post a question to the LUG that is on my mind these days. Considering some of the replies that I have seen of late I may be opening Pandora's box with this question, but as they say, "You can't win if you don't play." So here goes. Has anyone done any comparison of the Zeiss G-Mount glass versus the modern Leitz glass. Currently I am shooting with an M4-P with 35mm and 50mm Summicrons, and a 90mm Elmarit. I have decided that I want a rangerfinder with an in camera meter. I was about to go ahead and make the leap to an M6 (and for me it's a huge leap) when a friend suggested that I check out the new G-2. I have been doing so for the last week and I'm at a cross roads. Confusion, confusion... There are many pros and cons for both systems. I'm going to be using my camera (whatever it happens to be) to make photographs. Documentary photographs, environmental portrait photographs, snap-shots, blah, blah blah. In other words, I'm going to shoot. I have been shooting with the M4-P for about a year and I love it. I have come to truly appreciate rangefinders, but I don't have a lifelong tie to Leica. Any comments, recommendations? Questions that I should ask? TIA, Scott King jscottyk@ix.netcom.com Austin, Texas