Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Or, you could have simply used the 9xi with the autofocus turned off. Dan C. At 12:46 PM 23-03-99 -0600, you wrote: >At 10:40 AM 3/23/99 -0500, you wrote: >>The surgery was only supposed to take about >>five minutes and I could image trying to fumble with focusing and getting >>only one or two photos, so I took my Minolta 9xi in addition to my Leica >>M6. The noise was awful and I spent most of the time trying to get the >>blamed thing to focus on what I wanted it to and not what it wanted to! > >Tina, you M user you... > >You, certainly are enlightened enough to know what's what. An R8 with a 100 >Apo Macro would have been your tool for such a surgery! :-) > >I have tried AF with macro before (Nikon F5 and 60 Micro) and find the AF >totally useless in such applications. I can see where you might think AF is >the way to go, but not for anything closeup, especially with a wide >aperture. Glad it worked out for you in the end. > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch > >The Devil whispered behind the leaves, It's pretty, but is it Art? - >Rudyard Kipling > > >