Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/03/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, Between the Contax AX next month, and the Nikon F5 (whatever) this summer, high end camera users are having a great year. While I'll likely get the F5 (unless it's too extreem) I'll watch the AX from the sidelines... though I'll probably rent one for a weekend just to see what it's all about. Michael At 08:53 AM 28/03/96 -0800, you wrote: > >Contax's solution with their new AX camera is to move the mirror box, >film plane and some other parts back and forth to focus. It's very >quick, very accurate, and you only need to manually focus some long >lenses when you want to get very close. And the camera tells you where >to set the lens (in the viewfinder no less). Leica ought to license this >technology. > >-- >Eric Welch >Grants Pass, OR