Re: [Leica] Re: Greg Bicket's focus thread

[Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>]

Jim Brick jotted down the following:

> Since you, the human, who are looking at the ground glass screen, know what it
> is that you want in focus, how can a computer program written by a programmer,
> sitting in a cubicle somewhere, know what you want to focus on

That's like arguing against shutter speeds on an M6, because Leica can't
know what you are taking a picture of.  Autofocus is a tool and, like any
other tool, it can be used effectively or not effectively.  I'm surprised
that you, Jim, with your experience of digital photography would voice such
a nonsense argument.

Autofocus knows when *something* is in focus: it is up to the photographer
to choose *what* to focus upon.  The autofocus doesn't try to guess *what*
you want to focus on any more than it tries to guess what you had for lunch
last Thursday.

Now, autofocus point selection, may be another thing... ;)

M.

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