Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/16
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At 8:00 PM -0400 7/16/01, Ethel Red wrote:
>>From: "B. D. Colen" >
>>>
>>> PJW wrote:
>>>
>>> It sounds like you're using an auto-focus camera to replicate what you
>>> do
>>> with a manual focus camera. Which begs the question: Why have an
>>> auto-focus
>>> camera?
>>
>>And the obvious answer is...
>>
>>Because there are times when auto focus is very handy to have....And,
>>while some folks on this list insist autofocus doesn't work
>>reliably/consistently enough, other folks find that it does...There are
>>times and places for manual focus and all mechanical camers, and times
>>and places for electronic whizbangs..
>>
>>B. D.
>
>But that wasn't my point. It seemed to me that the original poster
>wasn't using the auto-focus camera *AS* an auto-focus camera. I've
>never used a motorized auto-exposure auto-focus plastic fantastic
>myself, ;-) but it seems to me that it would only be useful if you
>could simply frame the image and push the shutter release.
You should try one. They have been known to allow people to take
passable photos.
>If you have to take the time to position an auto-focus sensor on the
>point you want in focus, and then push a button, then frame the
>image and push a different button to fire this technological Rube
>Goldberg contraption, you might just as well use a manual focus
>camera.
>
>The obvious exception would be the photographer with failing eyesight.
It's useful in a number of ways. If you've never tried one, this list
is not the place to explain it.
>PJW
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