At 06:56 PM 7/16/01 , Gary Fisher wrote:
>Maybe his results are due to manufacturing tolerances
>- a good example of the F80/N80 Vs a mediocre example
>of the 30/Elan 7??? A different test may find the
>reverse, or how I find it - very little difference.
>When it's all said and done, it's just HIS opinion.
And Philip Greenspun is VERY opinionated. So much so that you should take
everything he says with a large grain of salt. You should not give his
reviews any more weight than any other "Joe Blow" on the Internet.
Just to relate one story about my EOS 3 -- while I find the AF to usually
be excellent, there was one situation where it just utterly failed. I was
trying to take a vertical photograph of the back of a house, which had
siding, a bunch of windows, and a deck. The camera just would not lock
on. It just hunted back and forth. On about the 5th try it finally
worked. This was with the 20-35/3.5-4.5 at 20mm, which had no problem
focusing at any other time, even in some of the dark interior rooms of the
house. Now there could have been any number of factors that caused this,
and it may have focused accurately with a 2.8 or faster lens on it, but
IIRC, some cross sensors are still active at f4 or larger, so it befuddles
my mind why this happened.
Devin
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