Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is so Karen, I have a G2 which I like a lot but the viewfinder is not a patch on the M type IMHO. The G2 has a crude moving corner to black out a side of the 'finder for parallax correction. Zoom framelines would require a conceptual redesign of the viewfinder, very expensive maybe not even feasible. I imagine an EVF makes an expensive mechanical linkage between finder and both zoom and focusing controls unnecessary. Anyway I like the camera despite the viewfinder. The lack of a large enough buffer for big files seems a bit cheapskate though. Using a fast Ultra II card mine takes about 4 seconds to write a RAW file and my camera can manage 3 shots in a burst before it has to stop to write to the card. I do not use the burst mode so this is no problem but the RAW time is - it seems like much more than 4 seconds! cheers Frank On 11 Apr 2004, at 17:13, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> In a fit of enthusiasm I bought the Panasonic version - I prefer >> black and the Leica was not in stock. I don't like the EVF at all >> though it does have the benefit for me of not needing a spectacles >> change to review the images. It feels like a camera for a change, I >> like the controls being in the normal places and the results are >> excellent! Still, I am not fond of zoom lenses and they preclude a >> nice optical finder, so I guess I have to wait a bit longer for a >> digital camera I really like. I already prefer digital to film, just >> not the cameras. > > Well, the Contax G has a zooming finder. Granted, most of the zooming > finders on point-and-shoots suck, but surely Leica could do something > better? Even having a fixed magnification with zooming framelines > would work for me better than an EVF. > > Karen > > > > > -- > Karen Nakamura > http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >