Really like my Digilux 2-Is this bad?

[ernstk]

I really enjoy using my Digilux 2. It feels like a big rangefinder to me rather than a DSLR.

It handles nicely, despite its size, it has an excellent lens with exactly the focal lengths I like to use and there is an immediacy about the results that I find pleasing.

Should I even be talking like that on this forum?

Regards
Ernst

 

[mad_boy]

I like mine too, and have a question to the members.

Does any one of you have the remote control for the Digilux?

Mad_boy

 

[AlanS]

Got to agree with you, I think it's a great camera. I bought mine earlier this year and I love the way it feels like a manual camera with a digital sensor. I've tried a few digital compacts but this is the first one that I could get along with. What I really want is a digital Contax G2, but that's never going to happen!
Regards,
Alan

 

[ernstk]

I like mine too, and have a question to the members.

Does any one of you have the remote control for the Digilux?

Mad_boy

Yes, I have the plug in remote control but I haven't used it yet.

Ernst

 

[rpsawin]

I love mine but can't tolerate that damn evf. Why Leica/Panasonic decided to use it is just beyond me. Otherwise, it is a terrific and highly under-rated camera.

Bob

 

[cmogi10]

if more people didn't like them that much they would sell for cheaper on the used market!!!
(I looked for one for a while to compromise not thinking I would be able to afford an M8, people tend to want to hold onto them they like them so much)

 

[emraphoto]

i really wanted to like them... really. but like the L1 etc. i couldn't get passed the evf. a nice crisp viewfinder in there and i'd be a convert!

 

[RayPA]

I like mine too. Even though I haven't used mine in a while, I found I got use to the EVF. The lens is fabulous. The zoom range is perfect. I think it's a fantastic portrait camera. At 100 ISO and some nice light it's hard match/beat.

🙂

 

[St.Ephen]

Saying EVF is bad is an poor excuse.

Saying EVF is bad is an poor excuse.

I read a LOT of reviews for the Digilux 2 before shelling out, and all of them said the same about the EVF. The solution?? Stick an external vf by Voigtlander, with another attachment to centre it over the lens, and there is no longer any excuse. "A bad workman always blames his tools....." 🙂

BTW ernst, i read with interest the late night Whisky Thread from last week, with other Brits. Someone mentioned Talisker, and i had some at the weekend in a bar in Mito(Japan). Wow! I can just about speak again...! 😱

 

[rpsawin]

I read a LOT of reviews for the Digilux 2 before shelling out, and all of them said the same about the EVF. The solution?? Stick an external vf by Voigtlander, with another attachment to centre it over the lens, and there is no longer any excuse. "A bad workman always blames his tools....." 🙂

BTW ernst, i read with interest the late night Whisky Thread from last week, with other Brits. Someone mentioned Talisker, and i had some at the weekend in a bar in Mito(Japan). Wow! I can just about speak again...! 😱

Cleary these reviews were written by people who never got beyond point & shoot photography. Slapping an external vf on the camera only aids in framing and composition. It in no way helps with focusing, especially a zoom lens. Maybe a bad workman blames his tools but the village idiot tries to determine level with a screwdriver....🙂

Best regards,

Bob

 

[St.Ephen]

Cleary these reviews were written by people who never got beyond point & shoot photography. Slapping an external vf on the camera only aids in framing and composition. It in no way helps with focusing, especially a zoom lens. Maybe a bad workman blames his tools but the village idiot tries to determine level with a screwdriver....🙂

Best regards,

Bob

HAHA! touche!

True, it only aids in framing and composition. But you could resort to using Hyperfocal Distance, or heaven forbid the #coughautofocuscough# facility.....😱

 

[rpsawin]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh you have strayed afar from your saintly path. I will light a candle and say I prayer for your soul. Autofocus.....

I'd send you a jpeg but I can't get the damn candle in focus...lol

Best regards,

Bob

 

[St.Ephen]

LOL. Don't worry, Grasshopper. I was merely suggesting. I would never encourage. :angel:

 

[Peter Cheung]

Really nothing bad about liking a certain kind of camera if it gives you great pleasure... and it does. I actually don't mind the EVF and find it very useful to do fine focusing with the automatic magnified view as soon as you rotate the focusing ring. Other than the universally condamned long write time, I find the viewfinder delay a bit of a problem for time critical shots.

 

[rpsawin]

LOL. Don't worry, Grasshopper. I was merely suggesting. I would never encourage. :angel:

Thanks! Now I can blow out this candle...you would not beleive the moths it's attracting. I'd send you a jpeg, but....

Bob