Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Hasselblad XPAN
From: Harrison McClary <harrison@jnlcom.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 10:59:14 -0500

Dan Cardish wrote

>It's easy to use and seems to be up to normal Hasselblad
>standards."    

If it is performs as good as my 500 C then I want three so that when the 
first two quit working I will have one to fall back on.  :)  Every shoot 
I do on my 'Blad I double shoot on my 35 because I have had way too many 
times when the damn thing has miss synced, inner shutter leaked light, or 
other things.  Maybe just my camera, and to be honest it has worked very 
well since I had it completly overhauled last year, still I  am gun shy 
from all of it's past problems.

>My first impression too when seeing the photo that it looked a little to
>much like the Contax G

What's wrong with the way the G looks?? I think it is a rather elegant 
looking camera, its lenses are no slouch either.  I have one and really 
like it after getting used to its quirks, still prefer the M, but for 
many subjects the G works great.  And as far as being discrete goes the G 
is everybit as good as the M.  Even more people think you are just a 
happy snapper because it not only looks like a nice P&S it sounds like 
one too. :)  Something to be said for the AF and motor in this day and 
age of auto everything cameras.



Harrison McClary
http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto