Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From the above, the GR-1 is the lightest, flatest and cheapest, but with a 28mm lens, nice for indoor use and close-up street shooting, not so nice for head & shoulder portraits for which you may prefer a slightly longer lens. No shiny "titanium" shell, but plain black anodised magnesium (flamable?). And a surprisingly good brightframe finder with indicator for shutter speeds and parallax marks that appear automatically when things are getting to close. Its greatest feature from my point of view is the switch for the flash mode, which stays where it is after turning on/off the camera. Practically all other point & shoot cameras reset flash mode to "auto" when turned on. That means the flash capacitator is always charged (draining the battery) and to turn it off, you have to press tiny buttons severall times. Hans-Peter