From: Shel Belinkoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Why is this soo bad?
>
> Because, it seems, you either won't get anything or you won't know
> what you got. Why give up control of focusing when, with manual
> focus, you know what you're focus point is. Why on earth would you
> want your camera to tell you what you can and cannot photograph?
The "why is this soo bad" question is in reference to the pop up flash
releasing a burst of light to assist the autofocus system in low light
situations. If the autofocus system does not employ such a means, then it
may "refuse to take a picture or focus on something randomly." Since
manually focusing an SLR in low light is difficult business, it's not
unreasonably to have the autofocus system employ some means to assist
itself. It used to be that they used an IR beam but it seems the cameras of
late are using a white light method similar to many point-n-shoots (my Nikon
Coolpix does this). I'm not sure why camera makers are doing this as all my
pictures with the "white light" method have that fearful "deer in the
headlight" look. Anyways, I think you used the wrong argument. This was a
better time for your "Leica rangefinder low-light focusing advantage"
argument as opposed to your more common "why let the camera control focus"
argument...
Mark
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