Re: [Leica] The New Solms AF

[Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil]

     Bob,
     
     Let's not wax irrational here.  I have no idea whether Leica plans an 
     autofocus camera and, frankly, don't much care.  But just as there are 
     those today who'd refuse to consider any such AF camera a "true Leica," 
     so years ago, no doubt, there were those who refused to consider any 
     SLR a "true Leica" and, later, who refused to consider any autoexposure 
     camera a "true Leica."  Perhaps no camera with a built-in light meter 
     is a "true Leica," maybe no camera with anything but screwmount lenses, 
     or even no camera without a fixed lens (i.e., the "original...intent").
     
     The upholding of standards need not amount to a flight from innovation.
     
     Art Peterson
     

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Subject: [Leica] The New Solms AF
Author:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at internet
Date:    2/3/98 10:12 AM


It does'nt seem necessary that Leica repeats the same mistakes every twenty 
years or so, just because some Leica users insist on letting AF aside. An AF 
Leica would have simply a different market. --Christian Becker 
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Christian,
     
There is a point where the nature and extent of a change in a product 
transforms that product into something other than the original in intent and 
purpose. A Leica is one thing. An AF is another. 
     
Sure, if Solms wants to produce an AF, let it be called by its true name, a 
Solms. Let's not confuse it with a Leica.
     
Bob