Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]austin: > To do autofocus, using present manual focus lenses, the film plane would > have to move. This was done by Contax. It's called the AX. It's a > fabulous camera, but BIG...quite thick. It works quite well, but isn't > very > fast. Though I like the AX as a very excellent camera, and an > engineering > marvel, it was not very successful commercially. couldn't you theoretically have a camera that had a mechanism for moving the lens, rather than the film plane, something on the same principle as a bellows, but more robust. e.g, you could set a regular R lens to infinity, mount in on the camera, and a system of motors and screws inside the camera could move the lens mount back and forth to achieve focus? it could even be some sort of helical system, i suppose. i'm sure this is hugely impractical for some reason, but i seem to remember rumors of an AF hasselblad on these principles a few years ago. - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." --Calvin and Hobbes "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen not only cares about America, he is America, and what's even better, he understands just how fucked up it is and has always been to be an American, the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world. --Joey Sweeney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html