Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica & Contax test
From: "walter s. delesandri" <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:11:23 -0600 (Central Standard Time)

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:43:21 +0100 Bruce Feldman <brucef@waw.pdi.net> 
wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@mail.wm.edu>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 1999 7:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica & Contax test
> 
> 
> >Yeah, and I can field-strip my M3, adjust the parallax, CLA the shutter,
> >reassemble, load and cock--wearing a blind-fold--in under a minute--and
> >*all* of this with no other tools than my Leatherman.  Does this earn me my
> >salt?


My kinda guy...
Walt


> 
> Yes.  If you can do all that -- while standing on one foot, whistling
> Dixie -- then I'd say you've earned your salt.
> 
> >The autofocus on the G2 is plenty fast,
> 
> Not fast enough, IMHO.
> 
> and when I shoot the 'luxes at wide
> >aperture and slow speeds, it often takes a good long while to focus.
> 
> I'll accept this point.  Maybe.  I've not tried the G2 in low light, but
> have heard it's much improved over the G1.
> 
> So
> >what's the point of such strange comparisons: all of this is so much chalk
> >and cheese.
> 
> 
>  I'd say it's a supremely relevant comparison.  So what's the point of your
> strange question?
> 
> Bruce Feldman
> Warsaw
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>3.  If you use the G2 in auto mode, which, let's face it, is how it's
> >>designed to be used, it doesn't start to work until you (at least
> partially)
> >>press the shutter.  If you're going to prefocus it, you have to be aiming
> >>it.  Bye, bye, subject!  Any M user worth his salt ought to be able to
> >>prefocus his M -- and set aperture and shutter -- while it's in his
> pocket,
> >>out of sight, with one hand, and without thinking.
> >
> >
> >
> >Chandos Michael Brown
> >Assoc. Prof., History and American Studies
> >College of William and Mary
> >
> >http:www.wm.edu/CAS/ASP/faculty/brown
> >
>