I read you won't reply, but I am sending it anyway.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Graywolf wrote:
Kostas Kavoussanakis wrote:
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Graywolf wrote:
fight the camera. It is not as simple as just turning off AF, for
instance, every AF camera I have ever tried to us has had its manual focus
use compromised by the changes made to the design for the AF to work at
all.
What cameras would these be (are we talking SLRs here?) and how?
A. Focus screen optimized for brightness rather than accuracy.
B. Focus on the lens loose so the AF motor does not have to be too big,
rather than optimized for smoothness and accuracy by hand.
C. Viewfinder image of low magnification.
A. I don't understand. But what does it have to do with AF.
B. has nothing to do with the body (we were talking about fighting
it), so it does not answer the question. Fit a MF lens that you like
on it and the AF camera is not compromised.
C. What does it have to do with AF.
In other words, is there a technical reason why AF tips the balance
towards brightness, rather than accuracy and is there a technical
reason why AF causes viewfinders to go small.
And I won't mention my personal preference on B and C, as it't not
what we are talking about here :-)
Just trying to learn a thing or two,
Kostas
