Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/01

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Subject: Re: Paparazzi &Princess Di
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 09:53:00 -0500

At 12:10 PM 9/1/97 +1000, you wrote:
>Surely not with a Leica or even an all manual camera.  Then we'll all be
>implicated and will not be able to live with ourselves. I knew autofocus
>and matrix metering would spoil everything.  And now its all my fault
>and if its not I want to find someone to blame because I need a simple
>answer to everything.

It's a simple fact, not answer, that AF is the choice of such photographers
(didn't get the joke?) because quality is secondary to getting the picture.

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass, OR

We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.