Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob Bedwell wrote: > In my opinion the only design that > would save the Leica R series is to incorporate an auto-focus system > similar to the Contax AX. Not much chance that this is going to happen > either. I think that's what Leica would have liked to do. On the Solms tour much was made of the quality and precision of the focussing helicoid on Leica lenses, and the fact that you couldn't have this on an AF lens. However the AX has been a commercial *disaster* for Contax. Some VERY large dealers have been selling only one or two per year. A Leica R with AX style AF (and with the consequent huge AX body size) would probably have sunk Leica Camera.