Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Re:
From: "Rob Studdert" <audiob@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 12:10:04 +1000

On 25 Mar 99, at 20:16, Jean-Claude Berger wrote:

> Some days after, I was finishing a little walk when I saw a very
> interesting pattern in a stone wall. I mounted the 45 mm on the G1,
> composed carefully, checked the exposure parameters (something like
> 1/500 s at f:5.6) and took the shot. It was the last picture of the
> roll, I did not doubled it.
> 
> When film came back from the lab, I could see this last picture
> completely out of focus (no, it's not a motion blur). As soon as I
> could, I sold back my Contax set, sadly."

Jean-Claude,

Did you see in the G manual the references to the limitations of the auto-
focus system, particularly the non-ability of the G to focus on recurring 
patterns (a common AF dilemma)?

Cheers,

Rob Studdert
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