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[OM] wind lever poke-in-the-eye; auto-focus

Subject: [OM] wind lever poke-in-the-eye; auto-focus
From: William Sommerwerck <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 07:00:36 -0700
There is a solution to the problem of being poked in the eye by the wind
lever.

It's called a motor drive.

A motor drive not only makes the camera easier to hold (at leas the OM
motor drives do), but you can keep your eye glued to the finder while
photographing.

Which, oddly, brings up a point about autofocus.

Most of my photos are snapshots taken with an IS-10. The autofocus is
nice, if only because the viewfinder is a bit on the dim side. But when
I use my OM-4T, I find I don't miss the autofocus. If anything, I prefer
manual focus.

Why? Well, autofocus (at least on an SLR) forces you to think. You have
to aim the sensor at the object of interest (whether or not that's where
you want it in the final picture), then note whether the camera has
properly focused itself. 

But on an manual-focus SLR (and especially one with a motor drive, so
you don't have to pull your eye from the viewfinder to wind the film),
focusing on the object of interest is more or less second nature. You
don't have to think -- you just "do it."

Generally, I find it's faster to focus manually than automatically.
Autofocus works best on pocket-sized viewfinder cameras, where you're
usually not making critical judgments about scene composition.

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