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Originally Posted by Fotobug
Robert,
I think that Leica was very wise not to persue the auto-focus technology in its M-rangefinders and R-slr's for all of the reasons previously stated. That is the wonder of the marketplace. If a Leica user wanted an autofocus slr camera, there are plenty of *other* brands that are happy to sell them. If one were to look at the demographics of M and R-series users, I would wager to guess that they tend to want to keep system automatization to a minimum. Furthermore, autofocus has much too marginal a usefulness to allow it to control engineering of both the bodies and lenses of both M and R-series.
Take care.
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No the other brands won't give you the Leica opticl quality. Quite frankly Leica missed the boat, that is also why Leica is no longer used in the frontline by professional photographers.
It seriously limits the usefullness of a Leica SLR system. One would have to have a separate DSLR and then why not just drop the R and go only with the "other" SLR??
Cheers,
Tim