Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve Huntley wrote: > The Minilux and other current Leica p&s models all have the same flaw: > You depress the shutter button, the camera stores the exposure > information and STORES the focus but does NOT actually focus until you > depress the shutter button all the way--creating a delay that makes > the cameras not very useful for anything but static poses. The now > defunct Mini III, on the other hand, actually focuses the lens on the > initial slight depression of the shutter button so that when you > actually take the picture there is no delay. The minilux does this, too. At least mine does: you depress the shutter release slightly, and the camera takes all the needed reading and focusses the lens. Then you take the pic at the "decisive moment". > HCB armed with a Minilux might find himself recording the moment > after the decisive moment. Wasn't he the master of anticipation, then? Clairvoyant? Bernard