Right, but do you think they are going to make the *manual* focusing more
user-friendly on an M-version?
stuart
Stuart Phillips
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-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Williams [SMTP:skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 7:22 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OM4ti, Leica, and *HEXAR*
Don't expect autofocus with M lenses. The only way would be for Konica to
introduce a line of M-mount lenses with autofocus built-in. What you'd
get then would be the equivalent of a Contax G1/G2.
Skip
At 8/9/99 01:25 AM -0400, you wrote:
>All Hexars have been autofocus, no?
>
>I used one a couple of times (and loved it) except for the attempt at manual
>focusing. So what do people think will be the focusing method and how
>implemented?
>
>stuart
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Skip Williams <skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, August 08, 1999 11:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OM4ti, Leica, and *HEXAR*
>
>
> > I heard another confirmation of the rumor from a very reliable source that
> > the Konica Hexar M will be released by the end of the year and offer
> > aperture preferred auto-exposure.
> >
> > Skip
> >
> > At 8/8/99 08:13 PM -0400, you wrote:
> >
> > >Yes I also owned this exact camera! But from-the-hip shots do not work
>well
> > >with autofocus. Too hard to get the little thingy in the center on the
> > >subject,
> > >too easy to get it somewhere else. And some of the controls are too hard
>to
> > >operate. As good as the lens is, and it _is_ good, it is not
>interchangeable.
> > >One thing I did like about the Hexar is that it absolutely, positively a
>great
> > >camera to take when you do not want to be seen as having an expensive
>camera.
> > >My wife took it to Colombia for three weeks, no problems.
> > >
> > >There're a lot of rumors about a new Hexar that will take Leitz and other
> > >interchangeable lenses. Wouldn't that be interesting?
> >
> >
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> > Skip Williams
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> > skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx
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