Thursday, December 16, 2004, 2:27:31 PM, Peter wrote:
PS> Primarily I was thinking about film. (Is that necrophilia?)
Hi Peter,
Olympus Mju 2 (stylus epic) is pretty good as cheap P&S go. For more
use, it has two problems - shutter lag is very long (the lens focuses
AFTER you fullpress the shutter release) and you can't disable the
flash easily (you have to press a tiny button twice), and all settings
like center(spot)meter (which it does have, and works well) and flash
off reset themselves after you turn the camera off. This frustrated me
tremendously. But very cheap.
Better would be Ricoh GR1v - even better lens, aperture priority,
faster, and what's best, normal ergonomic controls - switches for
everything. Like aperture, flash use, all are controlled by hard
switches. It even shows the chosen speed in the finder. 28mm lens
though. More expensive :-(
Or, better yet, get one of the old rangefinders. Canonet QIII with the
40/1.7 lens is very very good.
Good light!
fra
