Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: Hans-Peter.Lammerich@t-online.de > From the above, the GR-1 is the lightest, flatest and cheapest, but > with a 28mm lens, nice for indoor use and close-up street shooting, not > so nice for head & shoulder portraits for which you may prefer a > slightly longer lens. No shiny "titanium" shell, but plain black > anodised magnesium (flamable?). And a surprisingly good brightframe > finder with indicator for shutter speeds and parallax marks that appear > automatically when things are getting to close. the plaudits bestowed upon the unglamorous ricoh confirm my belief that leica users are not status-seekers looking for optical jewelry, but photographers in earnest search for good tools, irrespective of name or red dots. > Its greatest feature from my point of view is the switch for the flash > mode, which stays where it is after turning on/off the camera. > Practically all other point & shoot cameras reset flash mode to "auto" > when turned on. That means the flash capacitator is always charged > (draining the battery) and to turn it off, you have to press tiny > buttons severall times. > > Hans-Peter the contax T2 (now discontinued) had a modal flash setting state (it was the aperture ring). i don't know about the T3 however, as it does not have a physical aperture ring. i agree with Hans-Peter that falling back into flash-on-auto every time you open the camera is an inconvenient design "feature." - -rei