Re: [Leica] AF, a FAD?

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

"Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" wrote:
> 
> Let's just say your at a ball game (football, baseball, etc.) The runner is
> off and headed in your direction at about 40 mph, with AF focus tracking I
> can lock on and take 6 shots all in focus and perfectly exposed with matrix
> metering compared to having 1 or maybe 2 images with a zone focused MF SLR.
> Maybe the 1 or 2 are good images, but law of averages would be in my favor
> as would be technology.
> As to your comment, nice attempt to try and put me in my place.  Now please
> tell me how you can focus track with a MF camera and be sure you get all 6
> images in focus.  BTW, most AF SLRs also have high-speed rewinding so at
> frame 36 I will up and running on the next roll in about 5 seconds, will
> you?
> 
> Peter K
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Locke [mailto:locke@straylight.ca]
> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:41 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] AF, a FAD?
> 
> At 09:51 AM 03/05/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >Eric/Mark:
> >
> >Face it guys.  You are dinosaurs with MF cameras that keep justifying your
> >using it.  If the Leica were so good and there was a REAL competitive edge
> >to the single digit percetages a leica lens yields over Canon and Nikon,
> >then all the photogs would be using R8s wouldn't they?  But apparently, we
> >all continue to justify what we own.
> 
> >Peter K
> >In the Land of the Dinosaurs

Peter!
It's a beautiful day for a game of baseball, the sun is shining, the
bases are loaded, are you shooting Agfapan 25? Are you shooting wide open?
If you can't get both the first baseman and the Catcher both in focus
what can you get? Half the distance? The issue being what is your depth
of field and how big a chunk of it do we need for the real world of
baseball? We don't need to be follow focusing a thin slice of the pie.
Just relax and take a big chunk! I bet much of the great baseball shots
were done with speed graphics. Or Rolleiflexes. Where's you reflexes?
Turn those lasers off; go with the force!!!
High-speed rewinding? Where's your other camera? You know, the one with
the COLOR film in it!!
Mark :-) Rabiner  Wroupht! Wroupht! (Dinosaur sound)