Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/26

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Subject: Re: new minilux / maybe, but this isn't it
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 17:22:09 GMT

At 04:06 26/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Uli -
>
>The new Z2X Compact Zoom with a fully automatic 35-70 
>lens will list for $329 and is a passive autofocus system.
>
>Marvin Moss

I wouldn't call that camera a new Minilux! It has, as far as I've read, no
aperture priority mode, no manual focus ability, no fast prime lens, no
exposure compensation worthy of the name- and those things were what made
the Minilux desirable, to me at least. 

Joe Berenbaum