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

["Dan Honemann" <ddh@home.com>]

> Of course, the Canon viewfinders are hard to judge focus in. :)

Therein lies the rub.  AF cameras can't, for some reason, use ground glass
focusing screens, and so the ability to manually focus is restricted.

See:

http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/af.html

...for an exhaustive consideration of this topic.

Nevertheless, AF apparently works well enough, and enough of the time, that
folks use it with good results.  It's the old "horses for courses" argument:
it's a tool that's not appropriate to all situations, but pre-eminently
suited to some.

Dan