Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Amazing? No....
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 07:33:42 -0600

> No doubt, you can get 'perfectly' focused photos...to the limits of the
> autofocus (something should always be in focus ;-), but you can't select
> exactly where you want it to autofocus...I can give you hundreds of
> situations where your autofocus will fail.  I am not saying autofocus
> doesn't have it's place, and doesn't work acceptably for certain
> situations...  This is just a fact, and I am amazed that it's being
> disbelieved!


Or that no one's pointed out that you can point an M Leica at a featureless
white wall and not exactly have a convenient reference point for rangefinder
focus. 

AF as heresy is a Leicalogical issue, _not_ a technical one. Get with the
program. Or continue to be amazed. <s>

- --Mike