Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/05

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Greg Bicket's focus thread
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 07:51:06 -0500
References: <20001105022105.87453.qmail@web2007.mail.yahoo.com>

What utter nonsensical crap.  The focussing screen in my AF is a standard
ground glass type.  And is very easy to focus visually, much easier than
the screens in my Nikon F2.

That whole page is pure crap.  Let me quote:  "If autofocus were really all
that great, then why aren't all the pros using it (e.g., on medium format)?
What do the pros know that you don't?"

Ummm.....so no pros are using the Nikon F5?  And no pros are using the new
autofocus Pentax, Mamiya, or Contax medium format cameras?

Dan C.

At 05:37 AM 05-11-00 -0500, Dan Honemann wrote:
>> 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.

Replies: Reply from Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> (RE: [Leica] Re: Greg Bicket's focus thread)
In reply to: Message from Pete Su <psu_13@yahoo.com> (Re: [Leica] Re: Greg Bicket's focus thread)