Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>------------------------------ > >Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:26:21 -0800 >From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Autofocus & Leica > >D Khong wrote: >> >snip >> I believe Leica should get an AF RF/SLR out into the market soon. Many of >> us are getting long in the tooth and weak in the eyes and would welcome the >> advantages that AF has to offer. I often ask myself: How can one continue >> to happily use a camera which will give blurred shots due to eyesight >> problem when there is an alternative loaded with extra features? >> >> Dan K. > >I though and I'm sure many of us have had. But on the other hand: >snip< >My Nikon SB23 Flash is on my M6 now. It is the most compact flash I >have. If I put it on my 8008 which doesn't get much use I can also shoot >in total darkness. And that was the first thing I did when I got that >setup. Turn off all the lights in the house and went around doing >telekinetic photography talk about going with the Force! The thought of >a lazorbeam thing shooting out to focus my camera and so on was very >exciting to me for a short while. I shot a roll with a model in total >darkness. But then the novelty ended. And that was a few years back. >If I was shooting these low light hard to see things you describe I >would want a Noct. Or a 35 1.4 but I don't have either or a G2 so I >can't speak from experience. >I'm very happy with my Zeiss T* lenes on my 'Blad but on the G2 they are >said to be very good but less then great and I'm used to great. >Sorry to insult your glass. >Mark Rabiner Mark- that 'laser beam thing' is EXACTLY why I now shoot a Leica/Canon 7 rangefinder.... once at a wedding, couple's first dance I aimed my Canon A2 w/80-200 f 2.8 --- and the "laser beam" lit up the grooms shaved head SO vividly that the bride exclaimed; "What's THAT!?!- oh, it's your camera!" kind of spoiled the moment to say the least! I bill myself as a "Photo-Ninja"; the manual focus rangefinders aid me in that. Yeah, I miss, especially shooting a Canon 50 f 1.4 LTM wide open once in awhile- but that 'out of focus thing' sometimes has it's own charm.... Bob Keene