Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the risk of sending sophisticated list members to consult a mass-market photo mag, the latest Popular Photography has two items of interest to us. 1) a 2-page advertising spread for the Cosina/Voigtlander stuff, with nice photos and very substantial ad copy which contains a glaring error regarding Leica. Can you spot it? Makes you wonder whether the folks at Cosina are truly targeting Leica users in a well thought-out way or just out fishing for any customers they can get their hands on. 2) a provocative test of AF focussing accuracy versus manual focus. The test shows that AF is not that reliable, all things considered, and that Canon EOS-1 AF technology still beats Nikon F5 etc. for image quality at point of focus. Perhaps Leica's resistance to AF all these years is well-founded: why throw away superb lens quality for the intermittent advantage of quick focus? Emanuel Lowi Montreal