[Leica] OT auto focus tip

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

2006-07-25-03:29:04 Douglas Herr:
> I want to be able to focus quickly, accurately, and simultaneously 
> anywhere and everywhere on the viewscreen.

I'm not suggesting anything actually exists right now which would
work better for you than manual focussing on a good ol' groundglass,
but... wasn't there something out from Canon awhile ago, some freaky
science-fiction EOS feature where it'd watch where your eyeball was
pointing in the frame and choose AF point accordingly? I always wondered
if something like that could work in a reliable, industrial-strength
way.

I don't seem to see that feature any more -- I wonder if that's because
it never quite worked as hoped, or because Canon are convinced that the
future lies in a swarm-of-bugs quantity of automagical AF points, with
focus point chosen by the camera's Very Clever Algorithms, no awkward
human interaction required?