Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it i s?
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 11:08:04 -0700

>Guy,
>
>OK.  So maybe it is my attitude as you put it.  But if you look around and
>see medium format now with AF cameras, (Contax, Pentax, and now Mamiya) what
>else would one think?
>
>Peter K

peter,

once again, i'm not sure that's the point. why couldn't there be both af
and m medium format, large format, pinhole ( !? ), etc., cameras? as
electronically sophisticated as the f5 and f100 are, nikon still makes the
fmn and the f3, and the latter model isn't much cheaper than a leica.

guy