Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't think it's so much that it is "the thing," Doug, as it is that it is the standard. And for most - not all - photographers and uses, there's the fact that an auto focus lens can be manually focused, while a manual focus lens can't be automatically focused. So for people with autofocus bodies, manual focus lenses usually don't make much sense - which is why so many unquestionably great lenses go begging for homes. On 11/16/06 11:41 AM, "telyt@earthlink.net" <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote: > <allen.graves@charter.net> wrote: > >> It is really remarkable how little interest there is in some of the > really high >> quality manual focus SLR lenses there is now. > > Kinda like how much interest there was in RF cameras in the 1960s, when > SLRs were The Thing. Now, AF is The Thing; never mind that for many > critical applications manual focus gives better results, if it ain't AF it > ain't marketable. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information