Mine arrives today. So does a mountain of rain. So likely delayed testing until this weekend. With the kids home on Xmas break I will recruit them for tests. They hate, er, love that.
ottokbre wrote:
Mine arrives today. So does a mountain of rain. So likely delayed testing until this weekend. With the kids home on Xmas break I will recruit them for tests. They hate, er, love that.
Check to make sure it does not scratch film. No wait, that is only needed for $7000 Leica MPs, M6s and M-As.
Very firsty impressions: it's about the same weight in the hand. The finish on the Lomo is more pleasing to me than even the X100F. Leatherette is more matte and leather like.
Frame lines are very.... Comic Sans? Rounded and very thick. I would have preferred something a wee but more precise feeling. All well. Pretty much no view beyond the frame either. The VF size itself is fine though. It seems coated too. I will have to test outside more.
ottokbre wrote:
For scale here it is next to my X100F.
Very firsty impressions: it's about the same weight in the hand. The finish on the Lomo is more pleasing to me than even the X100F. Leatherette is more matte and leather like.
Quick video clip of going through the aperture settings with the shutter on bulb.
The aperture control ring is very firm with a good deal of resistance and sticks to the value you set it to. At first I though this was a mechanical aperture but you can see the last few settings a delay from click to the blades closing.
Aperture works in full stops only.
The aperture is a two leaf design which makes for a square opening. I'll test how this look as bokeh on specular highlights at f4 and 5.6.
Also in the clip you can hear the AF motor. The shutter itself is a satisfying sound. But the AF motor sound is 90s P&S all the way.
Desmolicious wrote:
The delay from ‘our’ reviewers frankly is unacceptable.
I just finished a roll of TMax 100. Need to eek out a time to develop and scan.
So far my critique is for an entirely different class of camera, not one that costs $600. Two examples:
1) No shutter priority kind of suck when your top speed is 1/500. But program mode is easy enough to click into.
2) It would have been great to have Contax style in-VF metering. On the other hand it works fine. Metering is actually nicer than my hot-shoe meter because you can spot meter through the VF (technically center weighted? seems smaller though), half-press and hold the shutter, then flick the camera to see what it says on the top LCD.
One handed operation passes the dog-leash-in-the-other-hand test with flying colors.
3 time out of a 24 exposure roll, so six frames, overlap. No rhyme or reason that I can tell. I made it a point of winding the film in a continuous fashion too. I only got the error message after advancing once to advance more. That towards the end of the roll.
Focus often chooses background behind subject if the subject is midfield, say 10'.
Lens has some contrast issues in bright light. This lens probably needs a hood.
I'm a little underwhelmed with the output. But Tmax has never been my favorite. I have Kodak/Lomo 800 in there now.
