--- Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alex Z <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote/replied to: > > >I probaly didn't make myself clear in my original posting, but I > didn't > >mean having real troubles with my EOS-3 - it does deliver as it > should > >to, I was talking about something featuring this body, not rather a > >fault or something like that. > > Here's what you said: > "my EOS-3 with 28-70/2.8L attached couldn't lock at all hunting all > around(actually back-forth and stop)" > > What you said sounds to me like your camera is having trouble > focusing. Now I don't try and autofocus that much on bare walls with > a > bit of a dirt streak under very low light conditions, but I have > tested my EOS cameras in conditions like this and been very pleased > with focusing. > > I'd love to compare this Minolta with my cameras, just wondering if > anyone else has (either with the 3 or other EOS model), to determine > if your camera does have a problem or not, because my EOS cameras are > excellent at focusing in such conditions. I think my old EOS 10 was > best focusing of the three I've had, but it died when it's shutter > bumper liquified, so it's out of the equation. > > Not that it really matters to me, cause I don't shoot in those > conditions, those subjects :-) > Well, I still wouldn't considered it as a fault, just a kinf of limitation. I admit the conditions for stable AF were really tough, but if there is another system that is still able to perform, why not to check mine ? :-) Now, as was pointed by our fellow, I can understand the reasoning behind Minolta's higer sensitivity - they use CCD sensors instead of CMOS and that may explain (at least partially) that.
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