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Thanks to everyone for this informative and helpful forum. After an internal tug of war with myself I finally decided to take a chance on a T3. It replaces my Hexar Silver which I found bulkier than what I wanted as travel/pocket/purse camera. I have read the posts relating to the autofocus problem and have put mine to the test at home,followed by 10 rolls in Maine which sold me on it. Yes, the focus area does have a bias to the right side of the brackets if I use the regular method of auto focus (depressing shutter halfway). I tried the AFL system and that works very accurately for subjects at all distances. The bias to the right when using the normal focus method makes me think, as someone else mentioned, that is has something to do with the parallax lines---possibly another instance of dumb proofing it against forgetting to mentally recompose a little for closeup. I think Contax underestimated the typical buyer if this camera. I wish the AFL button was just a little bigger.
Now I know what Dirk meant in his review when he said the lens protector is "unconvincing" . Because of my worry that I will mush it with my fingers and scratch the lens I have decided to get the filter adaptor and a filter and cap for the extra protection.
I would like to know if anyone has used ND filters or color filters for b&w on their T3s, and if so, which ones. Because you can't set the film speed manually, and the exposure compensation goes only to 2 stops, this limits the filter use to 4x. Of course I keep forgetting that this is a point and shoot!! All in all I'm very happy with the T3.
Now I know what Dirk meant in his review when he said the lens protector is "unconvincing" . Because of my worry that I will mush it with my fingers and scratch the lens I have decided to get the filter adaptor and a filter and cap for the extra protection.
I would like to know if anyone has used ND filters or color filters for b&w on their T3s, and if so, which ones. Because you can't set the film speed manually, and the exposure compensation goes only to 2 stops, this limits the filter use to 4x. Of course I keep forgetting that this is a point and shoot!! All in all I'm very happy with the T3.