Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/29

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Autofocus & Leica- Reason For Rom
From: Peter Niessen <niessen@ifh.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 13:58:55 +0200 (METDST)
 
Dear Luggers,

yesterday I went to a small foto fair and talked a bit to the guy at
the Leica stand. When I asked him about autofocus lenses, he told me
that this is against their philosophy. He said that the mechanical
precision for AF lenses can't be as high as for MF lenses. I should go
to the Nikon stand and should compare their AF and MF lenses. They did
not have MF, but the AF felt sort of cheap and not very solidly what
concerns the focusing. (I assume that the mechanics of Nikon MF is
comparable to Leica.)

From this one might conclude that the ROM has nothing to do with AF.

Cheers, Peter.