On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sunday when I shot the Italian procession I took the Fuji X100 and the M8 > + 75mm Voigtlander. > > Although the X100 is good at what I bought it for, it is no way up to the > task of shooting this sort of event as well as the Leica does (or the E-1 if > I'd used that). It's just too slow and too small - the controls keep getting > in the way. The extremely simple user interface of the M8 is a real pleasure > and even with manual focusing I'm finding it faster and more accurate than > the X100. If you lock focus with the X100 and recompose, you have to refocus > & recompose for the next shot, whereas with the Leica you focus, compose, > shoot, shoot, shoot, ... - it's a real pleasure.
I don't know about how to do this with the X100, but with the GXR I do the same thing as you're doing with the Leica: focus with the half press, tap the AF/MF toggle button, and shoot shoot shoot. It's not quite as fluid as the Leica or the E-1/E-5 because it isn't quite as fast at unblocking the shutter release, but it works fine this way. To refocus for another subject, tap the toggle again, half press to focus, toggle back to MF. But I want that damn Leica M too. ;-) -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
