Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > 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... Yes. > i'm sure this is hugely impractical for some reason... Yes, I believe so in this case (35mm and lense couplings etc.) ;-) Regards, Austin - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html