RE: [Leica] AF, a FAD?

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

Let's just say your at a ball game (football, baseball, etc.) The runner is
off and headed in your direction at about 40 mph, with AF focus tracking I
can lock on and take 6 shots all in focus and perfectly exposed with matrix
metering compared to having 1 or maybe 2 images with a zone focused MF SLR.
Maybe the 1 or 2 are good images, but law of averages would be in my favor
as would be technology.  
As to your comment, nice attempt to try and put me in my place.  Now please
tell me how you can focus track with a MF camera and be sure you get all 6
images in focus.  BTW, most AF SLRs also have high-speed rewinding so at
frame 36 I will up and running on the next roll in about 5 seconds, will
you?

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Greg Locke [mailto:locke@straylight.ca]
Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:41 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] AF, a FAD?


At 09:51 AM 03/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Eric/Mark:
>
>Face it guys.  You are dinosaurs with MF cameras that keep justifying your
>using it.  If the Leica were so good and there was a REAL competitive edge
>to the single digit percetages a leica lens yields over Canon and Nikon,
>then all the photogs would be using R8s wouldn't they?  But apparently, we
>all continue to justify what we own.

>Peter K
>In the Land of the Dinosaurs

        Peter,  explain to us all why you need AF and how it allows you to
make better photos then someone who uses a manual focus camera.



Greg Locke <locke@straylight.ca>                               
St. John's, Newfoundland. 
http://www.straylight.ca/locke
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