Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/23

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Subject: Autofocus WAS Re: [Leica] Film Forevah!!
From: telyt at earthlink.net (Douglas Herr)
Date: Sun Jul 23 06:46:53 2006
References: <a2f8f4470607230034n409eb42bn70b7aea02333d0e3@mail.gmail.com> <44C327B0.3070408@nathanfoto.com> <000b01c6ae5c$4d3e9890$a302a8c0@ted>

On Jul 23, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Ted Grant wrote:

> Slight pressure on shutter release...Centre spot goes red... click!

Not a useful technique for those subjects where the desired best focus 
is off-center.  My subjects move quickly enough and often enough that 
focussing 'as-composed' yields a higher success rate than 
'focus-recompose-click'.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com


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