Re: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it is?

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Martin-
You exist, Martin, and should not feel you have to apologize for your taste,
or decision to use any specific camera brand or type within a brand! I can
see where someone like Harrison McClary might NEED AF as a means of making
his living, but if your 'style' of photography doesn't require AF, you
shouldn't feel that you have to rationalize your existance! Different
strokes, for different folks, as they used to say; use the tool that does
the job you're doing, in the most comfortable and efficient manner!
I would hate to go to a dentist who felt the only tool to use for root work
was a trepanning saw, or a barber who thought hedge trimmers were the
ultimate in clippers!
I am glad there are the thoughtful, deliberate, tripod using, and non-AF
people out there who enjoy the more relaxed form of photography- besides, I
can't move too quickly! I need the company!
Dan

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From: Martin Howard <marho@ikp.liu.se>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Canon really has AF figured out...BLASHPEMY? Or it is?


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>"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote:
>>
>> Since the younger buyers are not interested in antiques like us 40+
>> folks with excess income (better known as spare change), the market
>> will eventually disappear for them.
>>
>
>I guess I don't exist then: I'm 30, having bought into the M-gear about
>a year ago, I've just got a 1930's Leica II and am currently saving up
>for some LTM-lenses.  I've no interest in AF.  Couldn't care less if
>Leica brought out an AF R9 or not.  I need predictive autofocus about
>as much as I need horoscopes.  When I reach the "excess income"
>bracket (which I am definately NOT in at the moment ;), I'll be looking
>forward to getting some serious ASPH stuff and maybe an R6.2 with a
>macro lens or two.
>
>Or perhaps you were talking about the Nintendo-generation... ;)
>
>
>M.
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