Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] contax g2 lenses - comparable to Leica M?
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:25:31 -0800

I have a G2 and a few lenses to test for a week.....I'll give you a first hand
report later this wek.

At 10:32 PM 3/6/98 -0600, Eric Welch wrote:
>At 01:19 PM 2/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>>lenses are equal in quality to the Leica M lenses.  It seems that
>>Contax has taken care of the frames problem and parallax.  They have
>>also developed AF for their rangefinder before Leica.  Any opinions
>
>Their lenses are great, but as good as Leicas? Well, depends on what you
>mean by good. THey dont make an F/ 1.4 lens, for one. That's not a big
>thing. And who careas about AF for a rangefinder camera. The G2 is
>technically not really a rangefinder camera. But it IS a viewfinder camera
>(not SLR).
>
>As for the viewfinder: two words.
>
>It stinks.
>==========
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>When there's a will, I want to be in it.
> 


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