Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Andrew Hmm, I suppose the 35-70 and 80-200 Leica lenses are fast eh? I think not, and having seen N1 images side by side with R8 images using comparable zooms, Leica has no advantage over the Zeiss. Simon Andrew wrote: > > Contax has been offering such a model since 1994: the RX. I'd prefer > this capability to "full-fleged AF" because it's compatible with > existing lenses. Just look at the lenses of the Contax N1 - big in > size and small in speed. > > Except feet-dragging, I see no valid reason why Leica is so > dismissive. After all, the technology is a lot less > innovative/eccentric/you-name-it than the shape of the R8. > Pascal wrote: > > > >That's new to me. Leica made it known during the chatting session on the R > >future that fitting such focusing assistance would require almost identical > >capabilities in the body as with full-fledged autofocus. They seemed to be > >quite dubious, not to say dismissive, whether such a system would one day > >come to the R. I agree, though, that such digital focus assistance would > >come in very handy under lots of circumstances. It's the biggest item on my > >R wishing list. > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html