Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/7/99 6:05:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, dmorton@journalist.co.uk writes: << 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. >> The AX's lack of popularity has less to do with its size than the lack of long, fast teles and fast zooms in the Contax line, the less-than-stellar performance of the AX AF on moving subjects (predictive), and the lack of multiple AF sensors in the finder, none of which would necessarily plague a Leica version.