Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:33 PM 4/21/96 -0400, you wrote: > Until someone invents a synergistic camera system, a > trained human being will likely be faster. Canon's > EOS Elan IIe is getting close by determining what > portion of the image the photographer's eye is focused > on and setting the focus of the lens for that. It even > does predictive autofocus! That system's available now. > So even if Leica wanted to do something like this, > they're playing catch-up. > Actually, I find the eye-control focus a problem, because it only covers three (or is it five) little squares. Canon has a video camera that covers the whole view screen, but then, the need to focus with video is a lot less critical than stills. I find my EOS1n is very accurate, and faster than any human could possibly focus. That's why it's the camera of choice by many Sports Illustrated Photographers, including John Biever, who is their top football shooter (and Walter Ioss). The thing is, the focus works pretty much like manual focusing. But I won't go into it since this is a Leica list. It's the tool, and the knowledge how to use it that makes something work. Just like auto exposure, which is very handy in many situations, and with my M6, sometimes I wish it had it. But not very often. But then my job requires me to shoot fast. Most photographers have the luxury of taking all the time in the world. Even so, the M6 is very fast. And auto focus with a camera would be like lipstick on a corpse. > OK. Now that we've settled this, let's go take some > pictures. Happy shooting! Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier