Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:22 PM 12/27/98 -0800, you wrote: >My mother has a Minilux. I've used it quite a bit. I have never used a >Hexar, or even seen one. However, my mother's Minilux has one problem that >is in my opinion so awful that it, by itself is enough reason not to buy >the Minilux: it does not have a lens cap and cannot be fitted with one. >This means that, in order to protect the lens, you have to go to >extraordinary lengths when putting the camera away. I built her a custom >camera case out of a container that was designed to hold boxed fruit juice >for school lunches, but I glued a piece of semirigid nylon sheeting over >the part that would cover the lens, and I put 16 little plastic bump-feet >all around the edge of it, so that when the camera is slid into this case, >it will reliably cover the lens without touching it. > >When I bought a point-and-shoot I bought an Olympus Stylus. Olympus lenses >are not shabby, and it has a very good clamshell design that protects the >lens. The new-from-the-factory image quality is not as good as the Minilux, >but nobody ever puts point-and-shoot cameras on a tripod (there goes half >your lens quality right there) and the lack of a lens cap means that most >people who buy one will grind the front coating off of it within a few months. My Minilux has a sliding lens cap that comes from inside the body and swings over the front of the lens when the lens is retracted. I think they are all supposed to be like this. Maybe this one is jammed? Joe Berenbaum