A bit embrassing?

[Mark Roberts]

John Francis wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 08:04:24PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote:
>> David Savage wrote:
>>> At 08:44 AM 17/03/2008, pnstenquist at comcast.net wrote:
>>>> Some interesting threads came up today: In-camera autofocus vs. lens 
>>>> dedicaed autofocus; improved continuous autofocus with the new 
>>>> Pentax cameras and lenses. No much discussion followed either of 
>>>> these. So what topic does the list fixate on: Whether Macs or PCs do 
>>>> a better job of burning DVDs. Such silliness.
>>> LOL Soooo true.
>>>
>>> And I think you mean image stabilisation ;-)
>> Har!
>>
>> But there *was* one SLR that did in-camera autofocus. Can you name it?
> 
> Would that be the Contax (the one that used the same sensor as the "MZ-D") ?

No sensor: It was a film camera, the Contax AX, that moved the film 
plane to autofocus. That way they could achieve 100% backwards 
compatibility with all their old lenses.