Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/27

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Subject: RE: [Leica] G2 - Autofocus "rangefinder," or interchangeable l
From: Mary & Stan Kephart <kephartol@att.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 98 09:20:25 -0500

8/27/98

Eric wrote:

>
>I'm not really picking on the G2. It just looks like it. :-)
>
>It's a great camera for what it is, but as a professional, I find it has a
>few points lacking that need to be fixed. Manual focus is a joke. The AF is
>good, but it's slow. Try an F5 then try the G2 again. You'll see what I
>mean. And the time from button push to shutter trip is too long.


A month or two ago I walked into a Zeiss-Contax seminar at a local dealer 
complete with video on the manufacture of Zeiss lenses and impressive 
enlargements made from G2 negs.  At first I was very interested, until I 
saw the manual focus.  To me it was more of a very, very nice point & 
shoot, not "ein Stuck,"--a piece of work, like the M6.

MK NJ USA