Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Autofocus or manual focus would give you camera shake handheld at those speeds. The point was that today's autofocus are certainly capable of more than 1/4 sec at f1.4. The EOS is capable of EV0 and the F5 of EV-1. I use both manual M6, R8, Hassy and autofocus EOS cameras. Autofocus is no longer the limitation it once was. It is just a tool like any other photography tool. John stated that an M6 was capable of achieving focus at 1/4 sec f1.4 and that an autofocus camera could not. Rene . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Austin Franklin" <austin@darkroom.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2000 9:56 PM Subject: RE: [Leica] optical excellence and the human error factor > Wouldn't the autofocus should give you camera shake at those speeds? > > > ---------- > I just > turned the lisghts off in my study and I was getting exposures from 1 to 5 > sec at 1.4 and the camera was autofocusing correctly, it did hunt a bit at 5 > sec but still achieved focus on anything I pointed it at. At 1 to 4 sec the > focus was near instantaneous. At 1 sec or faster, I could not measure the > focus time, its instantaneous. > > >