What is the real practical ISO of the P30 ? How good is the Contax AF ?
I have an entire Contax kit with all lenses up to 350 APO.
When you don't have to shoot under pressure the AF is adequate.
The minute that a situation is more than static the AF goes to sh!t.
A lot of searching and a lot of missing. As a result I haven't used it on AF more
than a handfull of times over the last few years. It is what it is.
I shot with it last week with a loaner P30 doing a studio stock portrait of some
dogs and it was all but impossible to lock focus on an eye or eyes before the dogs
would move a few inches or turn head,etc.
Conversely,I shot the week before with a new H3D-39 and AF was,far and away,
superior to my Contax under similar,but not same,conditions.AF very zippy and accurate.
That said,I only shot AF to test the relative merits of both systems.
I still get a better return when shooting manual focus regardless of the system
Mark
P.S.-Steve,have you gotten any P30 file feedback,yet,from your stock agency editors?