Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: >If only it had autofocus...(-: >It is quite an essential requirement as far as I am concerned. I might have >bought an entire system, including new lenses if Leica had >gone down that >road. >To all of you 60+ year olds with great eyesight, have fun. >Cheers >Jayanand =================================================================================================== I get better results with rangefinder focusing than autofocus, and I've got 64 year old eyes. I'm routinely frustrated at work with the Canon 5D giving me soft images. Doesn't seem to matter if I choose the focus point, let the camera decide, use front button focus, or back button AF, I just never can be certain that the subject will be really sharp. I covered a news conference today, and even though the speakers were hardly moving, I threw away a bunch of frames where their eyes were out of focus. And I don't care what the specs might say, but in my experience the time lag compared to an M is too great to get the expression I want. I get too many frames where a person is looking down, and I pressed the shutter release when their head was up. Maybe the camera knows I'm a Leica guy. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer UPAA POY 1978 University Relations University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt