This makes it far too easy for your shirt or camera strap to catch the wheel and change your focus.
It spins freely, and it’s right at the edge of the camera.
#Contax g2 portrait manual#
First of all, the manual focus ring does not click into place. Unfortunately, the manual focus feature on this camera is built with the same leisurely flaws of the automatic features. I wanted something that I could set the focus and aperture, and be ready to click a picture at a half-second’s notice. This is the point that sold me on the camera, on paper. This brings me to my next point: the manual focus. But often I’m raising the Contax up and becoming frustrated with the way the camera’s automatic features seem to take their time. If I’m out doing street photography or journalism and I come across a fleeting scene, I need my camera to be reliable and ready. Rangefinders, I feel, are meant to be fast, precise cameras. This makes the camera feel very sluggish. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen often enough that you feel like you always have to double check the viewfinder’s focus scale. I’ve also missed focus on simple scenes before. Most of the time, you’re fine, but something like a fingerprint smudge on the infrared beam window can cause it to hunt. It’s easier, and quicker, to leave it in its single focus mode and half press the shutter yourself. Instead of maintaining a continuous drive of focus like a single lens reflex (SLR) would, it simply resamples the focus point every second or so and tries to focus on whatever it’s pointed at at that exact time. The continuous autofocus mode might as well not be there. This makes the camera feel full, and I’m certain Contax really designed their heart out on this camera, but some of these features are either finicky or just plain don’t work.
#Contax g2 portrait iso#
The camera is feature packed as well shutter speeds from 1-1/2000ths, exposure compensation, a manual focus mode, active infrared autofocusing, aperture priority mode, manual ISO and a double exposure mode. The focus distance and shutter speed are displayed on a green LED on the bottom of the viewfinder, which is useful because the autofocus is infuriatingly inconsistent, which I’ll get into later. The camera will automatically detect the focal length of any compatible lens mounted on it and will adjust the finder window to provide accurate framing, with parallax correction kicking in when you half press the shutter button. The metal body is complimented by a black rubber grip on the right-hand side of the camera, providing excellent grip on both the front and back of the camera, allowing for easy one-handed use. Ergonomically speaking, it’s damn near perfect for what it’s trying to be. It has a sturdy heft to it, and you can get a feel for the amount of hardware that’s stuffed inside the camera. Holding it in your hands is a completely different experience, however. So just by looking at the eBay listings you can get a pretty good feel for the Contax G1.
Nothing quite screams “‘90s technology” like champagne colored electronics. My Personal Feelings The Contax G1, a relic of of 20th century engineering ( Aryk Copley) So, after some research, I settled on this champagne manifestation of ‘90s affluence. This is a tall order, as any photographer knows there’s no ‘perfect’ camera there’s only the camera you can get your hands on. So, I was in the market for a camera that was compact, discrete, had a manual or zone focus option, and a good lens lineup, all without breaking the bank. I love my IIe, but it is not a subtle camera, and Canon’s lenses are not built for zone focusing. I was, at the time, just getting into photojournalism and street photography and was using a Canon Elan IIe. When I first looked into picking one up, I wanted something that every photographer wants at some point a camera that could do it all. My relationship with the Contax G1 is complicated.
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