I have owned both in past, and I preferred the t2 by some margin. The lenses on both are very good, that much is known, which is best I couldn't tell you. I think on balance I preferred the more classic look of the T2 lens, the 35ti has a much more modern look to it. At large apertures the T2 vignettes, wide open it vignettes quite a lot, but actually I don't mind that too much. The T2 is a solid brick of titanium with no frills that inspires confidence in it as a tool, the 35ti is beautifully designed and made, but you get the feeling it was a folly of the designers rather than a tool designed for taking pictures. There are too many features and modes, and it also had a few annoying habits - one of which was a slider that was easily actuated while removing the camera from its pouch or pocket that introduced a mask to cut the frame down to a landscape format. Very annoying indeed, and an unnecessary feature anyway, in my view. With the T2, you get an aperture ring around the lens, just where you're used to it, an exposure compensation dial and a shutter release. The 35ti requires that you pay attention to it in use. The T2's greatest weakness is the shutter lag introduced by the camera focusing the lens after pressing the shutter release (even though it locks the focus after half depressing the shutter release), it was also a little difficult to detect the 'half depressed' point in the shutter release travel. I can't remember how the 35ti behaved in this respect, though I think it might have been similar. The T2 has a centre weighted metering pattern, and was startlingly good in that regard, one of those meters that just seems to be almost telepathic. The 35ti has matrix metering, and while good, I found it unpredictable, and I'm not just being Luddite over matrix systems. In was particularly bad in low light where severe underexposure would always result. Both cameras would overexpose flash subjects at parties, but I found it easier to control on the T2 where simply dialling in -1 stop resulted in good candids. All in all I found the 35ti rather frustrating in use, whereas the only thing that I would improve on the T2 would be to reduce shutter lag by focussing the lens as soon as focus is locked instead of when the picture is taken. By the way, you can't improve the focussing performance by using hyperfocal technique, because the lens always lives in the 'home' position until the shutter release is pressed. Nothing is perfect...
Regards,
Piete
