Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] Monaghan's thought on AF lenses
From: Dominique.Pellissier@droit-eco.univ-nancy2.fr (Dominique PELLISSIER)
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:42:42 +0200
 
In a recent post, Robert Monaghan writes :
(...)
 "As for the sharpness mania, do you realize that most autofocus lenses
deliver far less critical sharpness in practice than a carefully focused
manual lens (again, per PopPhoto and other tests)? If you are a serious
amateur photographer, why are you paying three to ten times more for
autofocus lenses
that are far worse in practice than your older manual focus lenses? Duh? "
(...)
I'm surprised because it is the first time I read such an argument.
True or false ?

Dominique Pellissier