Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ------Original Message------ From: Pete Su <psu_13@yahoo.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Sent: May 31, 2001 2:12:08 PM GMT Subject: RE: [Leica] No more leicas >>> it's hard to imagine anyone focusing faster than a modern 35mm AF camera, especially with medium to long lenses. A Nikon F100 will focus a 100mm f2 lens in low light on someone's eyelashes in much less than half a second. <<< Suppose you wanted to focus on the iris, not the eyelashes. It will take you much longer than a half-second to make the correction. Seriously, try a Leica APO lens with a killer viewfinder like the R8 or SL has. A half-second?? I don't have the patience for that. Warblers jinking around in bushes, head-and-shoulders portraits of horses at full gallop, birds in flight... not a problem. Try it. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com