Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks. What gives with AF? It's all over the industry now. I like RF focusing, but the larger market has spoken. Is it impossible to design or license a credible AF technology without much ado? Nikon integrated AF while maintaining mount backward compatibility. So why not Leica (and Oly too, right?) when it mattered. Is there some curse that if you win at the MTF chart race and package your lenses in nicely made barrels that you automatically suck at modern body technology? Sheesh. Trippy industry. Bob Haight wrote: >While excellant stuff, Contax has suffered in sales. >The auto focus was frankly, too late and not lens >compatible with the mm system. The RTSIII was at one >time the industry standard but auto focus really >overwhelmed the whole mm system. The MF came out to >rave reviews but suffers as all MF does to digital. A >lot of dealers also had trouble getting the mm lenses >which were often out of production for long periods >but no one knew. Great deals can had on the mm system >on Ebay for a fraction of the R system. It may sell >better now used. >--- Scott McLoughlin <scott@adrenaline.com> wrote: > > >>How come? Is every premium lens and camera brand >>up the proverbial creek without a paddle? I'm a >>newbie. >>How did this come to be? >> >>Douglas Sharp wrote: >> >> >> >>>Yes Simon, >>>this was predicted in the photographic press here >>> >>> >>last month. >> >> >>>Apparently Kyocera are only going to make >>> >>> >>components for mobile phones >> >> >>>with >>>built in digital cameras. >>>Douglas >>> >>>Simon Ogilvie wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>According to the BJP Contax has pulled the plug >>>> >>>> >>on all 35mm film >> >> >>>>cameras and will do the same with digital cameras >>>> >>>> >>by the end of the >> >> >>>>year :-( >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >http://db.riskwaters.com/public/showPage.html?page=210204 > > >>>>Sad day. >>>> >>>>Simon. >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>Leica Users Group. >>>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>> >>>> >>for more information >> >> >>>> >>>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Leica Users Group. >>>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug >>> >>> >>for more information >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for >>more information >> >> >> > > > > >__________________________________ >Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! >Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web >http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/ >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >