Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ----- Original Message ----- From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 7:25 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica & Contax test >Yeah, and I can field-strip my M3, adjust the parallax, CLA the shutter, >reassemble, load and cock--wearing a blind-fold--in under a minute--and >*all* of this with no other tools than my Leatherman. Does this earn me my >salt? Yes. If you can do all that -- while standing on one foot, whistling Dixie -- then I'd say you've earned your salt. >The autofocus on the G2 is plenty fast, Not fast enough, IMHO. and when I shoot the 'luxes at wide >aperture and slow speeds, it often takes a good long while to focus. I'll accept this point. Maybe. I've not tried the G2 in low light, but have heard it's much improved over the G1. So >what's the point of such strange comparisons: all of this is so much chalk >and cheese. I'd say it's a supremely relevant comparison. So what's the point of your strange question? Bruce Feldman Warsaw > > > > >>3. If you use the G2 in auto mode, which, let's face it, is how it's >>designed to be used, it doesn't start to work until you (at least partially) >>press the shutter. If you're going to prefocus it, you have to be aiming >>it. Bye, bye, subject! Any M user worth his salt ought to be able to >>prefocus his M -- and set aperture and shutter -- while it's in his pocket, >>out of sight, with one hand, and without thinking. > > > >Chandos Michael Brown >Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies >College of William and Mary > >http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown >