Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yeah, and I can field-strip my M3, adjust the parallax, CLA the shutter, reassemble, load and cock--wearing a blind-fold--in under a minute--and *all* of this with no other tools than my Leatherman. Does this earn me my salt? The autofocus on the G2 is plenty fast, and when I shoot the 'luxes at wide aperture and slow speeds, it often takes a good long while to focus. So what's the point of such strange comparisons: all of this is so much chalk and cheese. CHandos >3. If you use the G2 in auto mode, which, let's face it, is how it's >designed to be used, it doesn't start to work until you (at least partially) >press the shutter. If you're going to prefocus it, you have to be aiming >it. Bye, bye, subject! Any M user worth his salt ought to be able to >prefocus his M -- and set aperture and shutter -- while it's in his pocket, >out of sight, with one hand, and without thinking. Chandos Michael Brown Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies College of William and Mary http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown