----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom C"
Subject: RE: Film vs Digita, was: lRe: Pentax is Dying?


> Responding to myself now... and I know someone will come in through
the back
> door and beat me over the head with "and how many of those photos
do you
> want hanging on your wall?".
>
> If AF is so bad... why are 99% of the cameras sold today AF?

Marketing.

 Why are there
> so many abominable in focus snapshots (and there's nothing wrong
with
> snapshots if that's what one wants)?  The fact is AF works and
works
> reasonably well.  It may not be the way some here shoot... but it
doesn't
> mean it doesn't work.

Sure it works, but it is also pretty hard to make a focus error at
infinity. You are talking discipline in one post, and eschewing it in
another.

William Robb



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