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Re: [OM] Can autofocus be as good as manual focus?

Subject: Re: [OM] Can autofocus be as good as manual focus?
From: Dirk Wright <wright@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:11:49 -0500
>On this subject, I was interested to read observations in an article at
>the follwing URL:
>http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/af.html
>He has quite a lot to say about poor resolution resulting from
>autofocus, even when the automatic focus is overridden in such cameras.
>You might like to take a look.
>

Oh yeah, I've read that several times. Unless he's updated it by comparing 
the newest AF offerings, I'm not sure that his argument holds anymore. 
Besides, it's not about quality for the majority of casual shooters. It's 
about convenience.

But, there *is* a sinister side to all of this, which is "the machine is 
smarter than you are, therefore do what it tells you to do." I wonder if 
anyone has done any deep thought on this subject. Surely no one on *this* 
list, eh??? <g> There's probably a movie about it somewhere also. Heck, 
there's probably a dozen or more Phd theses on it.....as usual, I'm behind 
the curve....gotta catch up.....<pantpantpant>..."Captain! She can't take any 
more!"....<g>
-- 
Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright


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