Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>Boy, did I curse for not having AF at that moment. >On the other hand, of all my films shot during our holiday in the Italian >Alps, not a single shot was missed due to inaccurate focusing or >inaccurate exposure (using a mix of zone metering and spotmetering). >So it really all depends on the subject. AF would be a major bonus in >about 10% of my shots, especially fast moving subjects (like playing >children or squirrels...) and indoor-shootings in low light where it is >not always easy to focus precisely (the M6 rangefinder is much easier for >that kind of shots), and I often just rely on the distance settings on >the lens barrel (luckily enough, these settings are quite accurate on >Leica lenses). > >Pascal Are you sure autofocus would solve the problem? Ok, maybe I don't know so much about this, I use an EOS 500N (but longing for a Leica, sigh) and that camera's autofocus is not very fast. In fact, I have missed several shoots just because it didn't focus fast enough. Maybe EOS 1 is so much faster that it actually does solve the problem. I have heard other people complaining about slow autofocus in general though, so maybe there is something to it. On the other hand, perhaps I am only backwards, but I don't like being so heavily dependent on electronics (says the EOS-owner! <g>) Cheers LUGers! /Tommy Tommy Olsson biologist and freelance science journalist member of the International Science Writers Association Address: Vrakgrand 7 B S-783 31 SATER Sweden phone/fax: +46 (0)225-523 25 cellular: +46 (0)70-320 02 31 E-mail: tommy.olsson@reporters.net WWW: http://www.algonet.se/~toskrivk