Control is nice, but the Mju II does have spot metering/focusing that works
fast & well in my experience.
I especially like rangefinders for wide or normal lenses where the
focussing is much more accurate than any SLR.
Tom
On Thursday, March 14, 2002 at 19:38, wavegirl <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] Point-and-shoots -- XA -vs- St" saying:
> Well, just my two pennies, but I can't stand autofocus-only cameras. Both my
> digital cameras are Olys and autofocus only. Playing
> find-the-similarly-distanced-area-with-some-more-contrast-than-your-subject
> game is really annoying. I know the mjuII is highly rated and the output
> isn't bad but I prefer having control over the camera whenever possible. I
> have two XA cameras, the original XA and the XA3 and on both, especially the
> former, the optics are terrific and usefulness of both can't be
> underestimated. The original XA can be a bit hard to focus in low light, but
> the 3 is dead easy to use though the optics aren't quite as crisp.
...
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