[Leica] OT auto focus tip

[nickbroberts at yahoo.co.uk (Nick Roberts)]

It hasn't yet appeared on a Canon digital SLR, but has been on a number of 
film versions. On the most recent, the EOS 3, it's excellent - well, for me, 
anyway. The 3 basically has the same AF system as the 1 series (including 
digitals) with 45 AF points - once trained, the camera will focus on the 
point you look at. Some users never got it to work, but it was/is reliable 
for me.

Nick

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Moore <jbm@jbm.org>
To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 10:28:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] OT auto focus tip

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?

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