Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2001-05-08-16:25:50 shino@ubspainewebber.com: > make sure to take pictures with various P&S's . some of them have > absolutely dreadful shutter latency... something that may particulary > drive a leica-user crazy. Oh, yeah -- that's one of the many problems with most P&S's. The Olympus I recommended has, in common with most cheap point'n'shoots, the problem that focus is locked electronically, but the lens isn't driven into position until exposure time. Others, at the GR-1 level and above, drive the lens into focus position at focus-lock time. Except... the Stylus Epic uses a pretty fast motor to focus the lens. Much faster than, say, the Yashica T4. So the lag isn't as bad as you might fear. Still -- I wouldn't depend on a P&S for anything really important anyway, because with any of 'em you never really know what the thing's decided to focus on until you get the pictures back. I'm talking about a cheap, light, drizzle-resistant backup whose pictures are surprisingly good, not a main working camera. Oh, another minor nit WRT the Stylus Epic: the viewfinder... exit pupil or whatever you choose to call it is smallish, so sometimes you can't slap it up to your eye really quickly and find the place to look through. I still think the camera represents a good set of tradeoffs; YMMV as always. I was saying -- buy one of these for pocket change, drop it in the bag, *and* get the lens you think you need for your M -- since the P&S is practically free in Leica terms.