Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:20 AM 3/7/98 -0500, you wrote: >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 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. As for it stinking, it is certainly a matter of opinion. But as a professional whose looked through a lot of different viewfinders over the past 20 years I think I'm entitled to an opinion like anyone else. As they say, opinions are like navels, everyone has one. As for the rangefinder thing, I defer to those who know the mechanics better, I should have made it clear that it's not a mechanical rangefinder. Does it use an active or passive AF system? As a matter of fact, by the way, the Correfot AF system Leica developed uses a pseudo-dual image focusing system by vibrating a grate quickly and looking at the image through the two views that moving grate creates on the sensor. Would you classify that as a rangefinder because it judges distance from two different angles? I suspect that we can split hairs all day if we want. Insulting comments are not necessary. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch IRS: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!