RE: [Leica] A way of photographing and autofocus.

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

Alan, 

Sensuality is very subjective.  And unless you have had opportunity to try
all other cameras your statement is a bit biased to say the least.  I know
of no camera with "soul"  much like no automobile has soul.  Its a machine!
Its the photographer that has soul.  Nice attempt though.  
Think about Ansel Adams with brownie, pictures would still be great, but a
kid with a Leica (soul?) it would still be snapshots.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Alan Ball [mailto:AlanBall@csi.com]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 9:41 AM
To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us'
Subject: RE: [Leica] A way of photographing and autofocus.


Peter,

No camera works as smoothly, delightfuly and sensuously as a Leica. No lens 
system in the world is physically as perfectly well designed, manufactured 
and assembled. Sorry for the fetichist side of this, but no other system is 
as enticing to use. It makes anyone WANT to take pictures, because it is a 
joy to operate, R or M. Most of the other systems lack that undefined 
charm, except a few well known classics (no AF among them), and I never 
touched an AF system that did have the 'soul' of a Leica. The ones I've 
used are efficient picture taking factories. They are no fun. Then, on top 
of that, knowing that he/she uses the 35mm system scoring the very best 
imaging benchmarks, turns the lucky Leica user into a very happy 
super(wo)man !

Using an AF gizmo in MF mode is a sensorial punishment !

Alan

On vendredi 7 mai 1999 16:48, Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) 
[SMTP:peterk@lucent.com] wrote:
> With all due respect to Jim, couldn't that be said about any camera?
> AF is only a tool, or option, I can still set a AF camera to MF.
> Yes it may not be as easy to manually focus as a MF camera, but there are
> other cameras
> on the market with straight forward controls that offer MF and/or AF!
> Remember, Leica did not invent ergonomics.