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

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Those Old Eyes
From: "Bill Lawlor" <wvl@marinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 07:36:47 -0800
References: <200011050801.AAA10060@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

> 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