Oh, that explains it then - you haven't tried the AF lens yet... It is so ridiculously slow (and heavy) that I find it hard to understand how this ever made it into customers hands. Honestly, after you push the button you can watch the lens slowly approaching focus ... still focussing ... yes, almost, ... just a bit more ... o.k., done it ... focus achieved.
I think the reason for the commercial failure simply is that it did not work well enough. Sven Zitat von Joaquim Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Brian Walters wrote: > > >I suspect that the commercial failure of the ME-F with its autofocus > >lens is what set Pentax back in the autofocus race. After the ME-F > >they went back to manual focus systems in the P series and were not > >ready to meet the challenge of the Minolta 7000. > > > Can't understand why, as a focus assist system it works really well. > With low ligh it's a > bit worse than the DS but not too much. Was it too expensive? > When I receive the autofocus lens I'll report on how it works. > >
