Mark Roberts wrote: > John Francis wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 08:04:24PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> David Savage wrote: >>>> At 08:44 AM 17/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>>> Some interesting threads came up today: In-camera autofocus vs. lens >>>>> dedicaed autofocus; improved continuous autofocus with the new >>>>> Pentax cameras and lenses. No much discussion followed either of >>>>> these. So what topic does the list fixate on: Whether Macs or PCs do >>>>> a better job of burning DVDs. Such silliness. >>>> LOL Soooo true. >>>> >>>> And I think you mean image stabilisation ;-) >>> Har! >>> >>> But there *was* one SLR that did in-camera autofocus. Can you name it? >> Would that be the Contax (the one that used the same sensor as the "MZ-D") ? > > No sensor: It was a film camera, the Contax AX, that moved the film > plane to autofocus. That way they could achieve 100% backwards > compatibility with all their old lenses. > I bet it even had an aperture simulator.
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