Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"This strikes me as a troll, but he misses the point completely because the "Contax is, as I and others have said, not a rangefinder camera. On this basis "I dismiss the paragraph as purile nonsense. This sounds almost like a legal argument designed to get a particular camera exempt from import duties in a country with with an archaic import taxation policy. Unfortunately any amateur photo-litigator could tear it apart. Observe 1) The simple man's argument Photo magazines are full of "rangefinder" cameras that didn't posess a true triangulating range-finder. There are zone focusing models as well as models with finder windows designed purely for viewing. All of them are accepted as rangefinder cameras in that they aren't reflex cameras. 2) The more elegant argument The G2 is a rangefinder camera compleatly and absolutely. Sure it's AF but range-finding is an activity not a method. It doesn't require any mechanical contraption whatever, just a gadget that sez how far. Therefore the G2 is a rangefinder based camera which uses a hybrid opto-electronic rangefinder which happens to require no range evaluation on the part of the defendant. The M6* remains the king of the optical range-finding cameras. Personally I'll stick with the M because I like it so much better but I won't try to disqualify the competition with hair-splitting arguments. Javier