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Subject: [Leica] contax guessing game...
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Sep 17 06:49:56 2004

I, too, had the G1 and dumped it - returning to Leica M after a hiatus
of about 8 years - for two reasons:

The autofocus sucked; and I wanted something that aproximated manual
focus in addition to the autofocus. The autofocusing on the G2 appears
to be much better than that of the G1, and presumably a third generation
camera would be even better.

B. D.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Philippe Orlent
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:34 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] contax guessing game...


I had a G1 with a 28mm, 45mm and 90mm myself and wasn't very happy with
it: sometimes strange in its AF choices, not metering as expected. Very
good optics, that's true, but in that price range you can't expect less
IMO.

> From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:24:20 -0400
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] contax guessing game...
> 
> First off, that image looks about as real as images I've seen of 
> flying saucers landing at the Bush "ranch."
> 
> Second, until we know what the camera is, what the lens or lenses 
> is/are, and what kind of images it produces, it strikes me that it's 
> pretty difficult to state that "there are allot of cheaper 
> alternatives out there." ;-) Say what you will about the G series, but

> it has killer optics, and it's really solid. So IF a digital version 
> were to appear, and IF it had the right CCD, one might be hard pressed

> to find cheaper alternatives that matched it in quality.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
> Of Jeffery Smith
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 9:21 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] contax guessing game...
> 
> 
> I digital G2 is not enticing to me as it is autofocus. If I wanted an 
> autofocus digital camera with a good lens, there are a lot of cheaper 
> alternatives out there.
> 
> At 07:51 AM 9/17/2004, you wrote:
>> As I said - well, think I said anyway, as I have been loaded up on 
>> pain
> 
>> killers for a couple days now ;-) - I'd be willing to bet we're 
>> talking
> 
>> about a re-badged Epsonica R-D1 or a digital G2/3. I must say I'd be 
>> very tempted by a digital G3, assuming that it had a brighter 
>> viewfinder. Obviously it would be greatly improved with real manual 
>> focusing, but I can't imagine that's going to happen. But as someone 
>> said yesterday - I think -
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf 
>> Of
> 
>> Richard F. Man
>> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:29 PM
>> To: Leica Users Group
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] contax guessing game...
>> 
>> 
>> Someone claims that someone on the Contax list discovers yet another 
>> teaser
>> pic:
>>
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=10304572
>> 
>> Zeiss nameplate, with what looks to be a rangefinder window!!!
>> 
>> Now if it is digital.....
>> 
>> At 07:57 AM 9/15/2004, Richard F. Man wrote:
>>> In case you are not aware, Contax has been running teaser pic, with 
>>> the
>>> caption: "Back With Passion" for the last week. A new piece of 
>>> puzzle every two days. Here's the URL
>> 
>> <http://www.zeiss.de/C12567A8003B0478/Contents-Frame/89C4BAA59688E580
>> C1
>> 256EEB00495E6A>
>>> DPReview news forum has a thread on it.
>> 
>> // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, 
>> please use richard at imagecraft.com)
>> 
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