Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:43:21 +0100 Bruce Feldman <brucef@waw.pdi.net> wrote: > > ----- 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? My kinda guy... Walt > > 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 > > >