Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Edoardo Yes the XF35 has NO AF shutter lag but a manual focus rangefinder lag depending on your skills... :-) It is lighter and smaller as a Canonet G-III QL17, a Yashica Lynx 1.4 or a Yashica Electro. The choice for a compact RF P&S is quite big. They all have better, bigger, clearer viewfinders than today's digi P&S. The Konica Auto-S3 is another great camera, costs about a Canonet, the size/weight is somewhere inbetween this and the XF. Great if used with flash. My personal favourite would be the very rare (and thus expensive) Zeiss Ikon Contessa S312 with 2.8/40 Tessar, rangefinder and inbuilt lightmeter. I'm not shure if you speak italian by your name suggests so, there is an italian website about many compact rf's from the 70ies here: http://digilander.libero.it/photocorner/compatte.htm best regards Didier >Thank you Didier. After a bit surfing the internet, yes, the price is >way off. I am in the market for a small, manual, p&s style of camera, >and the XF35 (or its Voigtl?nder sibling, the VF135) seemed >interesting due to no shutter lag because of a slow AF system, and >their huge, when compared to other more modern PS, viewfinders. >Best, > >Eduardo