Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>.....However, it's a time like this with hundreds of slides on a light >table from >various manufacturers lenses for comparison that one can appreciate what >Leica glass does. >ted > >Ted Grant Photography Limited >www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant Ted, So true. I'd heard about this, but never really experienced it before. Years ago, when I did commercial photography right out of college, I was one of the Nikon users. I told myself that Leica's were economically out of reach. I sometimes use an SL today that was probably the same model I would have purchased way back in the 70's. I've gone through dozens of cameras in between. Think of the money -- and heartaches -- I'd have saved if I'd just bitten the bullet back then. AF always comes up whenever other photographers look at Leica. Maybe it's another rationale people use when they discover the lenses ARE worth the cost. Granted, AF is very useful at times. But listening to the naysayers you'd think it was impossible to ever get a properly focused image without AF. (Was there even photography before AF?) Perhaps with an AF camera it is nearly impossible. I has the pleasure of shooting an F100 with an AF lens while my buddy used my R7. I had a dickens of a time trying to us it in manual mode. Maybe it was just me, but the lens felt loose. It was a mid-range zoom, but I can't recall which one. I must say I really admire the F100 body, but I was glad to get my R7 back. I'm still hungry for an R8. Dave - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html