Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/03
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On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Marc James Small wrote:
> At 02:15 PM 2/3/98 +1000, Duncan Young wrote:
> >There was resistance from Carl Zeiss to embrace autofocus technology
> >because it was felt that the lenses would have to be made from
> >lighter materials such as plastic.
>
>
> No, the resistance to AF by both Leica and Zeiss/Kyocera is a matter of
> accuracy -- neither company feels that AF yet is capable of matching the
> quality of their lenses and, hence, feel that adopting AF would, in effect,
> hobble their outstanding optics. In addition, current AF technology
> requires that lenses be made to have more focusing "give" than either
> company is willing to accept.
This is quite posibly the case, in which case perhaps Contax should modify the
text I quoted from their web page.
Duncan