[Leica] Don's PAW - now focus with auto focus

[bladman99 at yahoo.ca (Dan C)]

Actually, the button on my "9" has to be held in (unless there's some
function that can change that, there are so many....).

But my Minolta Dimage 7 digicam (D7) can be set up just the way you
describe the Canon.  In fact, because the AF on the 7D is so poor, and
manual focus is all but impossible because of the low res electronic
viewfinder, the focus lock button is really the only way to use the thing.

-dan c.

At 07:42 PM 09-10-04 -0400, Phong wrote:
[snip]

>The Canon SLR/DSLR have a button that can be set
>to refocus only when you press it.  In between shots,
>you can just leave it alone, unless you want to change
>the point of focus.  In some sense, it's like manual
>focus:  the camera never changes the focus distance
>unless you explicitly tell it to.  And it makes for a much faster
>response time, as the camera does not have to constantly
>refocus betwwen shots. Great system.  Wonder why I
>am not a great photographer yet.  :-)
>Other manufacturers probably have something similar 
>by now, but Canon was the only one with that system 
>10 or more years ago that I know of.