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Originally Posted by biglouis
I never understand this AF thing. How the *&$! would you make an existing Leica M-lens AF?
I mean, you'd have to modify the entire Leica M lens range or am I missing something?
The only way I can see Leica finding such a change economic is if they hand production over to someone like Panasonic and get it done in Thailand by hand and robots.
LouisB
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yes if you followed the Japanese tradition, fixing motors in the lens for AF.
The idea to preserve tradition and all the lens collection intact would be to create some kind of hybrid focus system, which would still preserve the manual focusing ring, but would compensate electronically for loss of accuracy thats observed in lens greater than 75mm.
And again, not all are affected by that, but if you use the m8 for tele photos then you get the mentioned accuracy error, no matter how good your vision is.
Since the error is very small, and so is the correction movement (you still do the job manually), it could have been not difficult to introduce such a system