Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> When aging eyes forced a move to autofocus in the early 90s, Ah, that is a very good reason to use AF, but I am sure you can't do with your AF what I can do without it.... That is not meant in any way shape or form to be insulting, but a point of ability... ................................. The only autofocus camera I have ever owned(or used) is my Ricoh GR1. It's great about 90% of the time. When it's off, it's way off. My aging eyes became apparent when I noticed more and more critical focus errors using my Canon FD and Pentax gear. I was getting very dependent on the little split image in the center of the ground glass. The answer was to go to Leica M rangefinders. The supposed advantage of DOF preview with slr cameras has been pretty much lost on me. I never could see DOF critically when stopped down so I always used the scale anyway. Bill Lawlor