RE: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it i s?

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Guy,

OK.  So maybe it is my attitude as you put it.  But if you look around and
see medium format now with AF cameras, (Contax, Pentax, and now Mamiya) what
else would one think?

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Guy Bennett [mailto:guybnt@idt.net]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 9:28 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it
is?


hello peter,

to briefly return to this thread, i'd just like to say that while some
lugnets might rev up their flamethrowers at the mere mention of af cameras,
there are many, like myself, who recognize that af is useful, perhaps even
necessary for certain kinds of shooting; i think this is self-evident. what
i disagree with is the assumption that the future of photography is fully
automated, and that all camera companies, should they wish to survive, will
have to produce af models. if anything, this point of view is indicative of
the attitude that you yourself have been battling in your various posts, in
that it implies the forced assimilation of companies like leica, who will
have to 'automate or die', as it were. maybe one day there will be a fully
automated leica, maybe there won't. if not, there will still be nikon,
canon, et al, for those who want or need auto-whatever capabilities. the
fact that most people use af cameras doesn't mean that all camera companies
have to produce them.

guy