Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/02

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Subject: [Leica] M8 Review, AF
From: amr3 at uwm.edu (amr3@uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 2 11:52:45 2007


On Thu, 2 Aug 2007  Douglas Herr <telyt@earthlink.net> wrote:

It's my contention that AF's popularity is a direct result of manufacturers, 
by
building cameras with merely adequate viewfinders, inadvertantly conditioning
their customers to believe that manual focus is nessesarily difficult.  How
many M users are willing to give up a high-quality viewfinder for the sake 
of a
focus confirmation light?
............................................................................................................................................
Not me.
I don't use any AF cameras for my own photography.  My work pictures have not
seemed as sharp since our lab changed to EOS AF cameras - first for film, and
now with digital - as they had been with Nikon F's, F2's, and F3's, and their
fast prime lenses + snappy viewfinders.  If they suited the assignment, I 
also
used to be able to employ my M's on the job.  Can't do that any more, now 
that
we're shooting digital.  It's always been hard to get funds for upgrades on
gear, and the state is not likely to add an incompatible system to our
equipment just because I like rangefinders.    B^(

Alan  [I think I have at least 13 RF's, in 35mm, 2-1/4. and 4x5]

Alan Magayne-Roshak
Senior Photographer
Photo Services
Univ. of Wis.-Milwaukee
Information & Media Technologies
amr3@uwm.edu
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/