Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ok, I shot with the darn thing all day and am getting used to it. I'm getting the hang of what will fool the AF system and how to deal with that. Same for the meter system. Overall I think it's a really, really nice camera. Quite a steal for the price. Very fast in operation and shutter lag is very, very low. Even in hires RAW mode the buffer is generous, unless you start machine gunning. If you shoot jpeg there's plenty of space. It seems to deal better with white balancing tungsten light than the Canon's I've shot with, which tend to be on the warm side. Color accuracy is very high. Noise is very low, all the way up to 1600 asa. I just started to dig into some NEF (RAW) files, so we'll see. The autofocus system is very snappy. I don't think it's as fast as the 1Dx I fooled around with a while back, but it's also a few thousand cheaper. The kit lens is very sharp. Much better than your average consumer lens. So, far my biggest complaint? It's mostly plastic (plastic over a steel frame). It feels -solid; but well...plastic. Is there such a thing as high quality plastic construction? Regardless it's build quality is light-years ahead of it's competitor, the Canon Rebel. Overall it's amazing how far we have come in a few years. Just about 5 years ago I remember playing with a 1 or 2MP Kodak and it was like the second coming. Now a grand will buy you a camera that will pretty much outperform most pro-cameras that are just a few years old feli On Jan 30, 2005, at 10:40 AM, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > I'm not so fond of my D70 for a number of reasons, but manual > operation isn't > one of them. Manual operation is actually pretty convenient. Stick > it on M. Turn > one wheel for shutter and the other for aperture. Convenient meter > readout right > in the VF and on the top of the camera. I like to turn the meter mode > to center > weighted when shooting manual mode. > What's so hard about that? The ergonomics of it are actually pretty > good. > > Scott > \\________________________________________________________ feli2@earthlink.net 2 + 2 = 4 www.elanphotos.com