Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I happen to suffer from astigmatism. What will this do to an EOS? Anyway, autofocus is not what I need. However, I would like to have aperture priority! Also, the Leica shutter system may be an anachronism. Would anyone care to comment on the R7 vs. 6.2. Best regards, Chris Fortunko > > Hi Group - > > There have been an incredible number of postings guessing > whether a/the post-M6 will be autofocus. > > I say, who cares? I won't buy one. > > I'm delighted with my M6 and I believe that I can focus > it almost as fast as any autofocus system could. In fact, > I often do much better. Those damn autofocus systems are > sometimes nothing but whirring-hunt-whirring-hunt... Pray > tell, how is the camera supposed to know what's imnportant > to me that should be in focus? I've missed some great > shots just last week at a fast moving fashion show. So, > now if I'm sleepy and want to use auto-focus, OK, that's > when I'll use my Nikon N90s in that mode! > > Until someone invents a synergistic camera system, a > trained human being will likely be faster. Canon's > EOS Elan IIe is getting close by determining what > portion of the image the photographer's eye is focused > on and setting the focus of the lens for that. It even > does predictive autofocus! That system's available now. > So even if Leica wanted to do something like this, > they're playing catch-up. > > OK. Now that we've settled this, let's go take some > pictures. Happy shooting! > > -- Wolfgang > > P.S.: I can't resist adding this: Just suppose that Leica > will make a new follow-on camera to the M6. I wonder > if they'll swallow their pride and call it M7, > knowing that that's the name used for the Mamiya 7. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Wolfgang Sachse Cornell University > sachse@msc.cornell.edu http://www.msc.cornell.edu/~sachse >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > >