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 25 Mar 99, at 19:00, Bruce Feldman wrote: > >Why can't you use exactly the same technique with the Contax? So at > >worst, the Contax will be just as fast as the M Leica. > > Good question, Dan. Answer: > > 1. The G2 would have to be used in manual mode to do that and it's hard > to manually focus it by feel (no focusing ring), without looking at it to > check the readout. Bruce, What is the difference between checking the focus indicator in the G2 and the spilt image in the M, I have both and I don't have trouble. > 2. It you have to turn off the electronics in order to get the camera to > work right, then that doesn't say too much for the camera, IMHO. Why > bother with it in the first place? Why turn it off? I like to have batteries on my MR-4 meter as well, it's a bit useless otherwise. > 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. > 4. If you're not going to prefocus your G2, then it doesn't get out of > bed until you press the shutter, too often too late. I don't know about > you, but I want that shutter to move. Instantly. I don't want it futzing > around while the subject turns away, etc. Please try to understand that not everybody has identical photographic aspirations, just because someone owns a G or M camera doesn't mean that they have an obilgation to stalk subjects in order to capture that decisive moment. The operation of the G system suites many users shooting styles. > As someone once said, a Leica-M user doesn't need an automatic camera, he > learns to be an automatic photographer! > > Regards, > Bruce Feldman > Warsaw Both systems stand alone and need no justification or inappropriate comparisons to justify their existence. Cheers, > > > Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 Fax +61-2-9554-9259 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours audiob@ozemail.com.au