Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/07

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Subject: [Leica] Bad news at Leica
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak)
Date: Sun Dec 7 19:12:04 2008

On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>wrote:

>How can we convince them that the M system is ok without AF?

>What the M system needs is FF not AF.
_______________________________________________________________
I could testify that I prefer manual RF focusing to the "AF" in the Canon 
EOS.  

Friday night I covered a reception and award ceremony where the low light
caused me much frustration.  Because of the nature of the event and the 
layout
of the site, I had to use flash on camera, which I hate.  The camera had a 
hard
time getting focus, so I'd get soft shots or the wrong moment because of the 
time the camera took to lock on. (I thought the infra red emitter in the 
flash
was supposed to help in these situations-it didn't seem to). It was too dark 
to even try
to manually focus with the AF screen.  

I used to shoot events like this with my M's and I could nail the proper 
focus every time. 

Alan

Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
UPAA POY 1978
University Information Technology Services
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/