I bought all but one lens from Japan and one of my bodies from there also. Oh, this quality glass is a steal at the going price also. I have a shot I did with the 45mm enlarged to 16X20 on my Leitz Focomat enlarger that sold me on the G system. Even wide open my shots are very sharp, but what surprised me was the level of contrast and low flare these lenses have at there max aperture. Now for the G 's really some of the best or maybe the best glass I have ever used in 35mm. I do miss the view finder on the Leica M's, but since the G1 is AF I find I can get by OK.
#Contax g2 buy plus#
Over the years I've own some really great 35mm gear (Leica M's, Leica R's, Leica M39's Plus Canon's, Nikon's and Pentax cameras with some of the best glass), but now I use mainly 4X5 and 120 film with Digi taking over most of my 35mm jobs. I actually get by just fine with the G1 bodies, but might pickup a G2 someday. My lenses are 28mm, 45mm and 90mm and my bodies are two G1's. I bought into the Contax G system just for the lenses and for the fact that I want to get rid of all my other 35mm equipment. How are the G lenses wide open? Maybe that's a weak spot? I may have to just take the risk on the G2. Don't even mention shots taken by Leicas. It does seem as if, almost any other SLR system has more impressive (optically) shots on flickr compared to the G2. Maybe the majority of photos are just bad scans, idk. So what I'm hearing is the photos online do not represent the lvl of quality the G lenses produce. And a thousand bucks is a thousand bucks, haha. I know it may seem silly to be questioning the quality of the contax output when my most immediate goal is to display them on that Caramate, but I plan on using the system for more than that later. And she's arguably a better photographer, hahaha. I'm not worried about risking capturing the trip on a new, unknown film camera because, for one, I'm sure I will still take a good amount of shots on my other cameras (Nikonos for ocean shots, Olympus XA & Minox GT-E for backup, Kodak Retina IIc because it's beautiful) Also my fiancé will be shooting digital. My fiancé and I are both photographers, so taking time to focus on getting good shots is something we enjoy doing together. But maybe that's unrealistic.Īnd regarding whether it's my honeymoon or a phototrip, it's a bit of both. I am pretty confident I can get proficient with an automated system fairly quickly. Definitely not the easiest camera to learn on. My first camera was an Exakta VX 1000 with the waist lvl finder, lol. I'm pretty familiar with a lot of systems, most being quirky and all manual. I've been shooting just about every kind of camera since I was about 12. Maybe with a bit of background it will sound more reasonable. Click to expand.Thanks for all the replies! Hahaha I don't mean for it to sound too fantastic.