A bit embrassing?

[Scott Loveless]

Mark Roberts wrote:
> 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.
> 
I bet it even had an aperture simulator.

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Scott Loveless
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