[Leica] Invention of autofocus by Ed Todoroff, my father

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca)]

Hi Ric,
 "Aw - so!   Interesting!"  I do know that part very well having projected a 
few million slides in the years gone by. :-)

cheers,
ted
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ric Carter" <ricc at embarqmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Invention of autofocus by Ed Todoroff, my father


> No, uncle t, this was the autofocus even you and i loved.
>
> It was the projector trick that refocused a slide every time the heat of 
> the projector warped it out of focus
>
> it was a wonderful invention that freed us to walk around the room rather 
> than hover over the machine nursing focus.
>
> ric
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> On Nov 15, 2010, at 4:27 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 
> wrote:
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>> Even though they didn't see the wisdom of your father's engineering 
>> skills
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