Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Motor Drive R8
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:05 +0100 (BST)

InfinityDT@aol.com wrote:

> The AX's lack of popularity has less to do with its size than the lack 
> of long, fast teles and fast zooms in the Contax line, the 
> less-than-stellar performance of the AX AF on moving subjects 
> (predictive), and the lack of multiple AF sensors in the finder, none 
> of which would necessarily plague a Leica version.

Well that's one opinion. OTOH can you imagine an R9 that's larger than the 
R8, in the same proportion as the AX is to the contemporary Contax manual 
focus bodies? The thing would need a powered wheelbarrow!