Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan Wajsman Wrote: >SNIP > after a year's shooting with M6 and M3 I no longer trust autofocus. I have the >top-of-the-line Pentax AF SLR but it sees very little use these days. I am >considering buying into the Leica SLRs, but the models I am considering are the >R6 or 6.2 or even one of the Leicaflexes. But these are MY tastes; they reflect >the fact that my SLR shooting is usually with extreme wide angles or macro, none >of which really benefits from AF. If I were shooting white-water rafting I would >probably have a different view. Perhaps this is a bit subjective, however as I have not spent any time with a top-of-the-line autofocus (i.e. for photographic purposes) I am interested in the "camera-shock" involved with AF to M6 to R 6.2 or 7, 8 or 4,or... After much use of R, it's highly comforting to hear the M 'click' and all the other leicalities that pertain. It is also nice to then put down the M6 (..no, it's not so nice.) and get inside the lens of, specifically the 19mm-28mm R. Although I'd throw the R stuff in a lake for the M's (keeping the 100 APO and the 19/2.8 and for that matter everything else) it is certainly 'fresh' to look into (again) the 19 Elm. I've found it hard to take the thing off my eye (yes, I drive through the 19 view...) - it's just more akin to the way the eye really sees (see what I mean...) Now for the AF AEvery - there is a reaction that is similar in essence, yet qualitatively different - and of course proportionally it is a relation that is hard to pin down . I'd be interested to see LUGers' comments on the differences here - of changing among the these three. For example, I would imagine that going from the Pentax mentioned above to an ...M4 could cause whiplash, or something of the sort... I could try this myself, but I've been forewarned by many (the postings themselves have frightened me so...)