JF Felinik
Member
it's been only a couple of months since I got me a G1 + 45mm + 28mm setup, it's the most beautiful camera I own, and those lenses are AMAZING, however, as I'm shooting street/candid/instant only, I experience the focusing (both using it in manual and auto) is way to slow for non "planned" shots.
For me it has come to the point where I'm seriously considering selling the setup and look elsewhere, preferably with "true" manual focus and zeiss glass (maybe a contax slr or compatible, and no, I'm not in for an M mount rangefinder)....
Really sad, anyone else experiencing this as well?
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For me it has come to the point where I'm seriously considering selling the setup and look elsewhere, preferably with "true" manual focus and zeiss glass (maybe a contax slr or compatible, and no, I'm not in for an M mount rangefinder)....
Really sad, anyone else experiencing this as well?
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Monochrom
Well-known
Hi, it´s not that fast, but you can still use the 28mm biogon with hyperfocal...although no dof scales on the lens barrel...somewhere out there i saw someone making stickers with those scales to stick on the g lenses...
At dofmaster.com you can check hyperfocal and other stuff related to it.
At dofmaster.com you can check hyperfocal and other stuff related to it.
mfunnell
Shaken, so blurred
I've never used a G1, but I've not had focusing problems with my G2 (once I figured out how to use it properly). Have you thought of trying the G2 to see if it gives you better results with the same lenses?
...Mike
...Mike
JF Felinik
Member
I don't have focusing problems, its just too slow... and since the focus need to mechanically move the barrel of the lens I have a hard time thinking the G2 would be any quicker...
Regarding hyperfocal use, yeah, I can use mf and keep it in infinity, else it has to move everytime I shoot anyway, and then we're back on square one...
Really a pity, it'd be great of someone invented a true manual focus adapter-ring to put inbetween the lens and the body, kind of like the adapters for these lenses for digital cameras!!
Regarding hyperfocal use, yeah, I can use mf and keep it in infinity, else it has to move everytime I shoot anyway, and then we're back on square one...
Really a pity, it'd be great of someone invented a true manual focus adapter-ring to put inbetween the lens and the body, kind of like the adapters for these lenses for digital cameras!!
Highway 61
Revisited
Don't focus on any moving subject but lock your focus somewhere on the pavement (either using the AF of the "manual" focus - which isn't a genuine manual focus because it won't work if the AF doesn't lock up on something it can "catch" in the frame), recompose, and shoot when your subject is where you have focused, or somewhere at the same distance.
This is how manual rangefindering works anyway ; with a manual focus camera, even a Leica M, you cannot quickly focus on something moving, in general, so you need to either use hyperfocal or focus using the rangefinder on something fixed located at the same distance as where your moving subject will be when you will shoot, then very quickly re-frame and shoot.
Yet the BIG Contax G system problem is that its so-called manual focus which won't let you take a photo if the AF hasn't detected something to catch at, say, 6 meters even if you have put the "manual focus" dial on 6 meters. So this isn't any real manual focus there.
Not speaking of how it poorly deals with reflective surfaces being in the field (windows, cars hoods...).
Great lenses, beautiful bodies, decent VF afterall with a real-time parallax compensation and a beautiful information display bargraph, but with a BIG problem regarding how it's focusing in practice...
You said it all...
JF Felinik
Member
This is the problem that it's not "real" manual focus, no matter what tricks we talk about here etc. it's just not suitable for instant/street photography where 1 second is sometimes A VERY LONG time... Sad really as the glass is REALLY nice!