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Re: Realist Focus (was stereo future)

  • From: P3D <TimMaf@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Realist Focus (was stereo future)
  • Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 01:48:17 -0400 (EDT)
>>[Look at the way a Realist focuses!  The film is supposed to
>>move in and out in back of the lenses!  Try watching that
>>with a blank roll, and I think that you will agree with
>>my decision not to bother repairing my Realist's rangefinder,
>>because basically it is unnecessary when the focusing
>>mechanism is so approximate, and one stops down for maximum DOF
>>anyway.]

Actually one of the latest advances in AF 35mm technology has been
Contax's AF.  It uses the moving film plane to focus which means that
the line of Zeiss lens needed no redesign thus older lens' weren't
made obsolete.  Of course, the press has labeled this an ingenious
"NEW" development.

Tim Maffia


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