[Leica] Invention of autofocus by Ed Todoroff, my father

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

You couldn't do a slide show without it.
It was like a little elf inside the slide projector running the focus.
Only way around it was mount them all in glass.


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> From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:55:13 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Invention of autofocus by Ed Todoroff, my father
> 
> No, uncle t, this was the autofocus even you and i loved.
> 
> It was the projector trick that refocused a slide every time the heat of 
> the
> projector warped it out of focus
> 
> it was a wonderful invention that freed us to walk around the room rather 
> than
> hover over the machine nursing focus.
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 4:27 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
> wrote:
> 
>> Even though they didn't see the wisdom of your father's engineering skills
> 
> 
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