bobbytan wrote:
I am curious. As a landscape photographer who is anxiously awaiting the manual-focus 21mm Distagon, I would presume you would be stopping down a lot and using the live view for critical manual focussing most of the time. Why then do you complain that the AF isn\'t good enough?
You misunderstand,I think the autofocus is perfectly fine, my comment was simply the perception of reading this thread, culminating in character attacks on well respected professionals when they dared to say something positive and in contradiction to the \'it sucks\' crowd..
I managed with an EOS 5 for years, and from experience with my current Eos 3 compared to my first digital camera, a 40D, despite the bigger numbers, the 40D AF is better in most situations, more accurate and faster, the Eos 3 has , in my opinion, a more forgiving tracking system, it stays locked on a bit better if you wander off the subject a little ,the 40D has a habit of instantly reaquiring on the background or whatever . I do miss eye control though, but I am sure the 5DII will be the equal of the Eos 3 AF , and as you correctly say, my main uses would be macro and landscape, both of which will be manual focus in the main (obviously so with the distagon).
Sep 24, 2008 at 10:44 AM
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