Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] contax g2 lenses - comparable to Leica M?
From: Five Senses Productions <fls@5senses.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:50:57 -0800

I have been testing a G2 for one day and I tried shooting in my house
last night in very dim light and not once did the AF fail.  As long as you 
have a bit of contrast on your focus point (as you need with the M6)
you can focus very well.

At 10:40 AM 3/7/98 -0500, Ken Wilcox wrote:
>The quality issue of the contax viewfinder is actually rather simple IMHO.
>It stinks. It is good that the camera is autofocus. The viewfinder would be
>nearly impossible to focus optically in poor light. The silly thing is
>ridicuously dim.
>
>Cheers!
>
>kw
>
>
>>Eric - You're wrong about the Contax G2 when you say it isn't a rangefinder
>>camera.  The camera views the subject through two different windows and
>>compares the views just as the the Leica does.  But the decision as to the
>>correct point of focus is made by microprocessor rather than the user.  It
>>works quite well.  What is your definition of a "rangefinder camera"? As for
>>the viewfinder that you describe in two works ( "it stinks"), many of us
>>really like it!  You seem to have simplistic answers to not so simple and
>>clear-cut questions. - JB.
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Eric Welch
>>> Sent: Friday, March 06, 1998 11:32 PM
>>> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] contax g2 lenses - comparable to Leica M?
>>>
>>>
>>> At 01:19 PM 2/25/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >lenses are equal in quality to the Leica M lenses.  It seems that
>>> >Contax has taken care of the frames problem and parallax.  They have
>>> >also developed AF for their rangefinder before Leica.  Any opinions
>>>
>>> Their lenses are great, but as good as Leicas? Well, depends on what you
>>> mean by good. THey dont make an F/ 1.4 lens, for one. That's not a big
>>> thing. And who careas about AF for a rangefinder camera. The G2 is
>>> technically not really a rangefinder camera. But it IS a viewfinder camera
>>> (not SLR).
>>>
>>> As for the viewfinder: two words.
>>>
>>> It stinks.
>>> ==========
>>>
>>> Eric Welch
>>> St. Joseph, MO
>>> http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>>>
>>> When there's a will, I want to be in it.
>>>
>
>
>----
>Ken Wilcox                                Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits
>LHSA, MEA, LAW                         preferred--->
><wilcox@umcc.umich.edu>
>                                              <kwilcox@genesee.freenet.org> 
> 


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