Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Leica in the LUG/ AF
From: images at comporium.net (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:58:33 -0500
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Me, too!  I get much better results manually focusing the rangefinders than
I ever got with Canon's search-forever autofocus!  And my eyes are 66 years
old.

Tina

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3 at uwm.edu> 
wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >If only it had autofocus...(-:
> >It is quite an essential requirement as far as I am concerned. I might
> have bought an entire system, including new lenses if Leica had >gone down
> that road.
> >To all of you 60+ year olds with great eyesight, have fun.
> >Cheers
> >Jayanand
>
> ===================================================================================================
> I get better results with rangefinder focusing than autofocus, and I've
> got 64 year old eyes.  I'm routinely frustrated at work with the Canon 5D
> giving me soft images.  Doesn't seem to matter if I choose the focus point,
> let the camera decide, use front button focus, or back button AF, I just
> never can be certain that the subject will be really sharp.  I covered a
> news conference today, and even though the speakers were hardly moving, I
> threw away a bunch of frames where their eyes were out of focus.  And I
> don't care what the specs might say, but in my experience the time lag
> compared to an M is too great to get the expression I want.  I get too many
> frames where a person is looking down, and I pressed the shutter release
> when their head was up.
>
> Maybe the camera knows I'm a Leica guy.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Relations
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>
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>  for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt
>
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-- 
Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com


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