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In Reply to: WoW my very sizeable 30 year investment .......hangs on your tests posted by Joe M on June 1, 2005 at 19:32:17:
The Minilux zoom is built like a tank, very solid and heavy for a small p&s. Pics are very sharp and detailed. It actually has a viewfinder that you can see through, which the Fuji F10 does not. But, the Minilux can not do macro photos. The closest you can get is .07 meters. It is very simple to work with, -no fiddling around.
Looks like it's a keeper, but the F10 may still have it's place.
Follow Ups:
At least I wasn't expecting to do it:
I really liked the Leica Minilux Zoom and thought it was actually better operating then the Contax T2 that I traded for my first digital camera (big mistake). I thought this will be a keeper, but just to convence myself I wanted to try the new Lecia CM, which is a minature replica of a Leica M (and it's cute). Big mistake! Even with 4"X6" prints the CM images were much sharper and clearer. It was difficult to tell the difference with close images but the CM pics of landscapes and images futher back then say 10' were very much more distinctly clear. The CM's Summarit 1:2.4/40mm. lens is almost as good as my Leica R6.2's Summilux-R 1:1.4/ 50mm lens.
There's a big difference between a Summarit lens and the Minilux's Elmar lens. Needless to say the CM turned out to be the keeper and I ended up spending more money then I intented.
What got me interested in going back to a p&s film camera like my old Contax T2 was when we returned from our trip from Puerto Vallarta, we thought my wife's photos from her little Leica mini were sharper and better then the digital photos we took, both from my new Fuji F10 and her Olympus 410. Looks like I'm still an analog man.
(Give me vinyl or give me vinyl)
megs will have to become afordable . Inorder to equal 35mm slide films i.e. Provia, Velvia etc.
(This post is turning out to be a mini camera review.)
Apparently Leica is trying to duplicate some of the features of what is common with digital cameras, and that is part of the CM's negatives. Just like in most p&s digital cameras, you have to turn on the camera with a little slide switch at the bottem, this opens up the lens lid as the lens pops out. Digital camera owners would complain that turning it on is slow, and indeed it is much slower then my Fuji F10. My old Contax T2 was very fast, it turned itself on instantly just by turning the focusing dial to AF. This is also true with the older Leica Minilux Zoom. Another feature that the CM lacks that was good about the Minilux is the AF was locked in place and you had to press a center button before you could dial in the other distances. With the CM it is too easy to accidently move the the distance dial to an out of focus position. The CM uses one lithium battery which the instruction manual says is good for about 200-300 shots before you toss it. A digital camera owner would say that this is only mediocre, my F10 is outstanding in this area as it can take 500 shots before the battery requires a recharge. So, with a CM you will have to carry a spare battery, about $5.00 apiece.
One of the most noteable features of this camera is it's absolute silky quiet shutter. This can work against an unwary photographer. If there is any kind of noise about, you can't hear the shutter, so you wonder why the shutter isn't working. The problem is, if you keep the shutter depressed, it keeps on taking pictures until you run out of film and you aren't aware of it until you realize what is happening.
The CM is halfway between a simple point-and-shoot and a fully functioning Leica M model. They probably should have gone all the way. It has AF as well as selecting your own focusing with '> ', '.', and ' <' that you see as a red LCD in the viewfinder.(you almost need a tripod to use this feature). It has an aperture priority dial. So, all it needs is a shutterspeed priority dial to make it a fully functional manual operating camera.
Inspite of it's weaknesses, -a not so simple to operate p&s film camera's that's trying to immatate a p&s digital camera, it all boils down to it's incredible lens, very solidly built titanium and leather body, -and very sharp images.
(Well Joe, how do you like my feeding this website? Problem is it just seems like I'm talking to myself.)
just poser's instead of doers
well, i've been away from this forum for a bit but i've enjoyed your adventures over the past two years on here. It's certainly been food for thought.
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