Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Huge, slow, power hungry, and unable to account for focus shift as the body would not know the aperture set come to mind for reasons not to go down that road. I would just shoot at F1 and forget about it. On 4/24/07, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin@optonline.net> wrote: > > > On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:13 PM, Tom wrote: > > > Rather than jumping to the conclusion that the Noctilux is unusable > > on the M8, perhaps adjusting one's technique in anticipation of the > > problem is in order. You said as much yourself - instead of > > focusing on the eyeball, focus on the tip of the nose when shooting > > at f 2.0, for example. Like Ted practicing to "lead" the peak of > > action when releasing the shutter in order to get the basketball in > > the frame instead of p-shopping one in! > > Isn't this a good rationale for incorporating autofocus in the next > iteration of the digital M camera? It could be accomplished by moving > the sensor a millimeter or so after the lens was set to approximate > focus. The old Contax SLR did it. Why not Leica. This would permit > use of all Leica lenses. Of course you could turn it off it you truly > wanted the eyes out of focus. Of course I don't have a Noctilux so > the problem is just academic for me. > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Don don.dory@gmail.com