Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/02/11

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Subject: [Leica] RE; Autofocusing M lenses
From: lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 19:22:35 -0500

About 40 years ago, give or take a decade, a precision camera make, probably 
Zeiss. marketed a camera in which the focus was adjusted by moving the film 
plane. This simplified lenses but had the downsides of increased expense for 
the camera body and the difficulty of providing enough motion for long focus 
lenses. The idea was abandoned after a few years but I believe that with 
modern electronics it could provide automatic focus for M lenses. But, of 
course, there would be little incentive for Leica to adopt such a system. 
Maybe a third party could sell a universal camera which would autofocus with 
all makers lenses.
Larry Z

+ + +
LUG:

Any idea whether this would actually work or not?

http://www.thephoblographer.com/2016/02/11/the-techart-pro-lens-adapter-promises-autofocus-for-leica-m-mount-glass/#.VrywD_krJaQ

Tina


Replies: Reply from alal at nyu.edu (Akhil Lal) ([Leica] RE; Autofocusing M lenses)
Reply from boulanger.croissant at gmail.com (Peter Klein) ([Leica] RE; Autofocusing M lenses)