Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Interesting what you say about the Canon sureshot. One of my friends, who was IMO the best motorsport pro shooting before he retired, bought a sureshot purely because it was autofocus, he used it for pit shots. I have heard of press photographers using them to get pictures of politicians trying to skulk in the dark and only sharp because of autofocus. In fact, until I read what you wrote there I thought the -only- reason to get a sureshot, rather than one of the other perfectly good 35mm P&S cameras -was- the autofocus. Here in England the small format cameras, such as 110 were never as popular as 35mm P&S cameras such as the Olympus trip. My mum replaced her ancient Olympus trip with the first Sureshot, you've got it, because of autofocus... Frank D On 27 Jan, 2010, at 01:54, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Ric, >> Huge at 4" wide? My Pentax 110 is only 3 7/8 inches wide, a mere 3 mm >> less. >> In fact the volume of the new camera is about the same as the old one. >> >> Mark, >> The Pentax 110 pictures are among the clearest and sharpest of any 110 >> camera thanks to the very good array of non-zoom lenses. Of course by the >> time you got a full set of lenses and a motor drive the kit was bigger >> than >> a Leica IIIf. But the Leica didn't have a SLR finder. I wish 110 film was >> easy to get. I would be still using mine. >> Larry Z >> > > > Next to Kodaks disk format 119 is the most notorious format in the history > of photography. > The cartridges was not able to keep the film flat at all it was widely > thought so it was a joke trying to make a worthwhile system for a format > solely invented so you'd pay just as much to Kodak but Kodak would only > have > to spend a fraction on silver. > It put photography into the dark ages. Like the Plague. But that's ok > becaue > the haircuts and clothing was so bad in the 70's we don't have to look at > it. > What saved photography was the Canon sure shot and then others like it. > 35mm film. The fact that it was AF was a side issue really. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_AF35M > Finally a person was able to take a decent snapshot of his family and not > have to hire some shlock photographer to come in and do it. > > > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information