Friday, December 17, 2004, 6:54:48 PM, Peter wrote: PS> Thanks Frantisek,
PS> would you consider the Ricoh and the Canonet as "pocket cameras"? PS> Peter The Ricoh - definitely. It's _the_ slimmest 35mm film camera ever. And it's made mostly of magnesium. I have no long track record with it, though. I just read about it and tried it few times in the store, and I liked it a lot. Canonet is a larger camera, perhaps not a pocket one. It's about as big as a Leica with lens on or so. It's basically a Leica with much cheaper (but still respectable by todays standards!) build quality and one non-interchangeable lens, but it has central shutter. see http://www.cameraquest.com/canql17.htm Few friends who actually used it rated its little lens highly. And they know what a good lens is, even for big prints. >From my few trials in the shoppe I found the Ricoh's lens to be quite good as well, especially for a 28mm lens. They actually later produced it in Leica M mount. The Olympus XA few others mentioned is nice as well, but I didn't likee its manual focusing. Try it yourself though, perhaps it was just dirty. And it does vignette a lot, even though its lens is supposedly otherwise very good too. Good light! fra
