Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have been testing a G2 for one day and I tried shooting in my house last night in very dim light and not once did the AF fail. As long as you have a bit of contrast on your focus point (as you need with the M6) you can focus very well. At 10:40 AM 3/7/98 -0500, Ken Wilcox wrote: >The quality issue of the contax viewfinder is actually rather simple IMHO. >It stinks. It is good that the camera is autofocus. The viewfinder would be >nearly impossible to focus optically in poor light. The silly thing is >ridicuously dim. > >Cheers! > >kw > > >>Eric - You're wrong about the Contax G2 when you say it isn't a rangefinder >>camera. The camera views the subject through two different windows and >>compares the views just as the the Leica does. But the decision as to the >>correct point of focus is made by microprocessor rather than the user. It >>works quite well. What is your definition of a "rangefinder camera"? As for >>the viewfinder that you describe in two works ( "it stinks"), many of us >>really like it! You seem to have simplistic answers to not so simple and >>clear-cut questions. - JB. >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch >>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 1998 11:32 PM >>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] contax g2 lenses - comparable to Leica M? >>> >>> >>> At 01:19 PM 2/25/98 -0800, you wrote: >>> >>> >lenses are equal in quality to the Leica M lenses. It seems that >>> >Contax has taken care of the frames problem and parallax. They have >>> >also developed AF for their rangefinder before Leica. Any opinions >>> >>> Their lenses are great, but as good as Leicas? Well, depends on what you >>> mean by good. THey dont make an F/ 1.4 lens, for one. That's not a big >>> thing. And who careas about AF for a rangefinder camera. The G2 is >>> technically not really a rangefinder camera. But it IS a viewfinder camera >>> (not SLR). >>> >>> As for the viewfinder: two words. >>> >>> It stinks. >>> ========== >>> >>> Eric Welch >>> St. Joseph, MO >>> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >>> >>> When there's a will, I want to be in it. >>> > > >---- >Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits >LHSA, MEA, LAW preferred---> ><wilcox@umcc.umich.edu> > <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org> > Francesco Sanfilippo, Five Senses Productions webmaster@5senses.com http://www.5senses.com/