> > With the Fuji X100, you set the camera to manual focus, then you press > the AF button on the rear to autofocus (that's not a typo) on your > subject. Once that's done, because the camera is in manual focus mode, > half pressing the shutter will not refocus it, so you can take as many > pictures as you want at that focus distance. > > As far as I can tell, it's as easy as doing this with a Leica M, > except you go about it a different way. >
well, I didn't know that - one of the big problems with the X100 is the hideous complexity of its interface. I'll try your method when I get home at the weekend. Nevertheless, I don't think it helps me (I don't have the camera with me at the moment to check) because you can't have manual focus and the optical viewfinder at the same time, and I want the optical viewfinder. I have it on AF so I can use the optical finder. In that mode, half pressing the shutter release locks the focus and exposure (as I've set it up). I can then recompose, but when the shutter has been released, pressing it again for the next shot refocuses of course. So you have to focus, compose, shot; focus, compose, shoot. But it's not the only thing that makes the camera difficult to use - there's also the issue of moving the exposure compensation dial too easily - no interlock - and it being too easy to press all the other little buttons. Not great. Leica got it right in 1932. B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
