Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Correfort
From: John Hicks <jbh@magicnet.net>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 01:21:58 -0500

At 10:54 PM 12/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I've read through a couple of different sources (though I cannot verify that
>they are completely independent) that Leica/Leitz at some time was working
>on an autofocus system for camera called "correfort" or "corrifott"

  The Correfot was a late-'70s AF system attaced to an SL-2 body. I believe
the brains were actually in a big box the camera was mounted on top of; it
wasn't really a functional AF camera as we know it.

John Hicks

jbh@magicnet.net