Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, I am not stopping you from doing it - do it - though I find most of your photographs use autofocus systems, but that is beside the point. BTW, in case you did not realize it, this is the first time I have got old, and if I say I am uncomfortable doing MF, that is the truth. Period. Cheers Jayanand On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>wrote: > What did people do before auto focus when they hit middle age and their > eyes > were not what they used to be? > They got glasses. And kept shooting their low tech cameras not knowing > they > were low tech cameras. With all the other geezers. Did old photographers > miss their focus more than the young guys? I think just the opposite. > 20 years on the LUG hearing guys who, darn it!, have to trade in their > boring low tech cameras for exciting high tech ones. That darned eye > prescription! > I just don't buy into the eyes going out thing. > Just like the rich old guys who cant buy into the low tech Leica thing. > Why spend all that money if you have to work to get a picture? > My God you have to TURN DIALS! > My glasses get much stronger with every prescription. This does not effect > my ability to focus a Leica M in the slightest. Nor focus my groundglass > cameras. And I have astigmatism on top of near sightedness. > This is the dirty secret on the lists and if we admitted it all the camera > lists would have to close down. People would have nothing to talk about. > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >