Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I use a Minox GT, a 35mm camera that focuses by rotating the ring around the >lens. Minox is now owned by Solms and the lenses of the GT type camera class >appear to be Elmars in design. In any case the 35mm fixed lens is about as >sharp as they come. It renders brilliant color. > If you can judge >distance and appreciate the 35mm focal length, and want true precision, there >is no better compact than the GT. It's the camera that I have constantly with >me. I've used it for about ten years. > >Bob Rosen I agree. I used a GT for years and wish I had mine back. Excellent quality, and the most handy thing I have ever used. Outdoors, just zone focus w/ Tri-X and shoot...back into your pocket. I would get another one but then I had to SWEAR to my wife that I would use that Hasselblad A12 much more than that little old camera.... and so it goes. Mark