Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pascal wrote: > > On 30-11-1999 20:25 Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote: > > >Well. According to tests, the new EOS-3 is faster at AF than the Nikon F5. > >Especially with the telephotos lenses that take advantage of new AF > >algorithms. So please tell me where you are drawing your statistics? > > Sorry, but this is plain nonsense. I have already mentioned to this > group, about half a year back or so, a complete and thorough testing of > AF performance of Nikon F90, F5, Canon EOS 1 and 3, and Minolta Dynax 9 > by the French magazine Chasseur d'Images. > Conclusion was without hesitation: the Nikon F5 beats them all, both for > speed of AF and accuracy. And that was with or without AF-S lenses. Even > more so, the F5 with a normal Nikkor could beat the EOS 3 with USM ! > It's my understanding that one system has a slight edge in focas acquisition while the other has a sight edge in tracking. But Canon's big lenses are white. I think people go for that. I like the looks of the 350 superaspheric from Hasselblad! Now there's a white lens I can't sink my teeth into!!!! but I'm a Leica kinda guy at heart and practice. Mark Rabiner