Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>More seriously, I think a manual system like the current R is not much >good for action or sports photography because the "hit rate" is way too >low compared to AF systems. Yeah? Well, shoot, I guess the pretty good sports pictures I've shot in the past couple of weeks were accidents? Even when I had AF cameras, I often turned it off, because in some sports, it's harder to get good pictures than not, like baseball. But soccer, for sure, benefits from AF. As for the two-ring vs. one-touch zoom concept, I'm of two minds. With a one-touch, I can't focus and zoom at the same time. You zoom in or out, and focus goes off its own merry way. With two-touch it takes a half-second to zoom out or in with the thumb. It does takes some anticipation. When you see the quarterback lateral the ball to the guy who is running at you, quickly zoom out and get ready for him to pass by. It takes some knowledge of a sport for sure, but I don't find two-ring zooms to be a problem at all, and when turning focus, I don't worry about zooming accidently. It's like rubbing your stomach and patting your head and chewing gum at the same time. One-touch zooms go in all directions at the same time. I don't like them. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch There's too much blood in my caffeine system.