Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0064_01BED397.86199AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just got a contax G1 system and it's no 'point and shoot' if you want it = to perform correctly! You gotta watch where the focus is! I must say, = the viewfinder lacks compared to the Leica, even the old brightline = fiinders are a joy to use comparably, BUT the automatic parralax = correction is a bonus! I remember lost shots on vacations with the = vidom on IIIf with bottoms cut off picture because I forgot to set the = parallax correction! anyways, the G1 is a totally different bird and I = like it so far! It's just "different!" Perhaps, if I stick a red dot = on the front... Kent - ------=_NextPart_000_0064_01BED397.86199AE0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Just got a contax G1 system and it's = no 'point=20 and shoot' if you want it to perform correctly! You gotta watch = where the=20 focus is! I must say, the viewfinder lacks compared to the Leica, = even the=20 old brightline fiinders are a joy to use comparably, BUT the automatic = parralax=20 correction is a bonus! I remember lost shots on vacations with the = vidom=20 on IIIf with bottoms cut off picture because I forgot to set the = parallax=20 correction! anyways, the G1 is a totally different bird and I like = it so=20 far! It's just "different!" Perhaps, if I stick a = red dot=20 on the front... Kent</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> - ------=_NextPart_000_0064_01BED397.86199AE0--