On May 13, 2007, at 2:57 AM, FLAVIO GORI wrote: > > It is a marketing war, so it may happen that sometime you think you > need > things that not really need, but you want it. IMHO this is what AF is. It's good for selling cameras and it works well enough at moderate apertures where conventional wisdom says lenses are optimum... but where DOF is shallow such as macro or when using large apertures (where Leica lenses often perform better than conventional wisdom) AF fails. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/