Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] M9's.. Used.....
From: billcpearce at cox.net (Bill Pearce)
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:25:36 -0500
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They called it autofocus. At least with my G2, it was unreliable, because 
there was no reliable demarcation of the AF spot. Real shame, as the lenses 
were superb.

Bill Pearce

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jayanand Govindaraj
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 8:55 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] M9's.. Used.....

Oh well, whatever you want to call an autofocus system then - I have
given my reasoning why I think this will come soon in an earlier post.
What did they call the Contax G?
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> M is for Messsucher which means rangefinder ;-) No doubt tht there will be
> an M10 but it won't autofocus M lenses.
> You can't have an autofocus rangefinder! That would be like a Lagavulin 
> with
> fruit juice, a digital Patek Philippe,  a Mont Blanc crayon or Sushi with
> ketchup and a side of fries
>
> Cheers
> Geoff
>
> *Lighting- eyes- action*
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>
>
>
> On 22 October 2011 22:28, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I thought about it - but decided it was too heavy and limiting for my
>> preferred subjects - wildlife and people on the streets. That is why I 
>> would
>> love a M10 with autofocus and halfway decent low light performance. I 
>> would
>> even buy new lenses for it, can you believe! (-:
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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