Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>It has its limitations but I don't finds them a huge problem. It won't >take filters or hoods and you can't do accurate manual focusing. The inability to use filters or a lenshood is the most serious limitation for B&W photography of all modern P&S cameras. This is one reason why I switched to using my Rollei 35s more often... I love B&W and I need to use an Orange or Green filter much of the time. Scale focusing takes a certain amount of practice and a reliance upon using depth of field properly. I've gotten reasonably good at it now after a lot of practice (Rollei 35s are scale focus only). I don't know whether this trick is possible with the Minilux because I forget what readouts the camera has available. On the Nikon 35Ti when you are confronted with a subject that would confuse the automation, you could use the auto-focus' prefocus capability to measure the distance on a similarly distant reliable target, read that off the scale then set the focus manual and take your exposure. The controls to do this are a trifly fiddly but it really worked well for me. Godfrey