Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/14

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Subject: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?
From: bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Sat Aug 14 06:14:42 2004

The camera doesn't chose, George - the user chooses. 

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[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
George Lottermoser
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:46 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] Leica/Digital - heresy?


B. D. Colen8/13/04

>R8/9 viewfinder, I will say that I have had no problem with autofocus 
>wide open
>with fast lenses - having extensively used both a 28 and 85 1.4 on the 
>Nikon 
>F100. The fastest available lens for the E-1 at this point is an f2, which 
>has 
>some issues - not related to use wide open, but I've had no problems using 
>the 
>2.8s wide open with autofocus.

I intended to refer to choosing where one wants the AF to focus (quickly). I 
find it difficult to imagine that you have 'no problem' having the camera 
choose where to focus in fast-moving, shallow-DOF situations.

Fond regards,

G e o r g e   L o t t e r m o s e r,    imagist?

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