Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Me, too! I get much better results manually focusing the rangefinders than I ever got with Canon's search-forever autofocus! And my eyes are 66 years old. Tina On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com