Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:48 AM 12/6/96 -0600, George Huczek wrote: >I have been told that autofocus lenses might somehow compromise >the quality of Leica's lenses. Can anyone substantiate this? I >would like to know why or how an autofocus lens per se creates >problems in optical quality. If such a claim about reduced optical >performance in AF lenses can be supported, then wouldn't it be >a mistake for Leica to go in this direction? It's not that AF 'reduces optical quality': the concern from Leica and Zeiss is that AF ACCURACY is not good enough to replace manual focusing for critical work, and, apparently, critical work is all that these two companies are interested in their customers doing. Thus, both the R system and Contax lack AF. (Yes, yes, I know about the new Contax -- but that is a specialty camera only.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!