Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:23 AM 6/27/98 -0400, you wrote: >IMHO, AF is a choice. To say that the R8 lacks AF, well, you would have to be >looking for AF to begin with, and in that instance, the R8 shouldn't even be >considered. Similarly, the M6 doesn't lack AE for the same reasons. >My 2 cents, > >Arturo And a good 2 cents that was. Some of us consider AF good for some things, but hardly the definding factor in a modern camera. The Rollei 8008 is old? Hardly. Just because a Pentax MF camera now has AF doesn't automatically date every other modern MF camera. But my point was that in the camera world, the only modern feature that the R8 doesn't have that seems to be something many people consider necessary is AF. And how many 15-year-old cameras have a built-in flash meter? Huh? And how many have a flash meter that's good enough to shoot commercial assignments on chrome film? The R8. Been there, done that. (And the Contax RTSIII.) - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. Albert Einstein