I was minding my own business, just trying to buy developer when I spotted the G2. No more frame lines (think SLR not rangefinder). The view finder adjust to the lens that is mounted so the view in the window is the frame. Aperture is dependent on the lens you use. Shutter speed is up to a nice fast 1/4000 (1/6000 in AUTO) and offers an AUTO mode that equates to aperture priority.
#Contax g2 film camera manual
No worse than my old eyes get from manual focusing and the camera was decently quick about it. I played with the CAF and think it might be good for slow moving subjects, but don't see it being up to sport of fast action use. MF is poor enough that I suspect there is a special place in hell for Leica shooters who have done bad things, forced to use the G2 in manual focus mode for eternity.Īutofocus gives you the option of CAF for continuous focus or SAF for single focus. If you want manual focus get a manual rangefinders. You can manually focus, you shouldn't, but you can. Manual focus is not why you shoot the G2. But it is an electronic totally battery dependent camera. The build quality is excellent and the interchangeable G-Mount Carl Zeiss lenses are the real draw. The size of the G2 is similar to a standard rangefinder like the Leica Ms, or the Voigtlander R3a. This mix between a traditional rangefinder and a point and shoot autofocus is both the charm and angst of the G2. The motor for the focus is located in the body. The difference is the G2 does it electronically. It uses a two window system to focus just like a "real" rangefinder. Production lasted until 2005 when Kyocera announced the end of all Contax branded production. Improved autofocus and expanded lens compatibility were key upgrades.
Introduced in 1996 by Contax (actually by Kyocera under the Contax brand), the G2 replaced the two year old G1.
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