Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Charlie Love challenges my point on AF accuracy and demands proof. For written documentation, I can only quote factory literature, which is suspect on its face. I do know several pros who shoot sports events (mainly races of one sort or the other) with Canon AF gear, and they uniformly acknowledge that shooting with a long, fast prime (2.8/300 L or so) will lead to a fair number of lost frames, but that using the motor drive and a LOT of film ensures that some of the shots are dead on. Of course, these guys are shooting for magazine and newspaper publication, and their shot may end up being printed in a 2" by 4" corner of an article, so perhaps accuracy isn't all that important. I would guess the AF failure rate under these circumstances (fast, long prime lens, rapidly shifting point of focus, rapidly shifting target) is 5% or so. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!