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- From: jspirer@rain.next.com (Jeff Spirer)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Which lenses report focusing distance electronically?
- Message-ID: <6129@rosie.NeXT.COM>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:48:39 GMT
- References: <TJWU.92Dec28153541@carbonara.mit.edu>
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- In article <TJWU.92Dec28153541@carbonara.mit.edu> tjwu@athena.mit.edu
- (Thomas J Wu) writes:
- > Are Nikon's D-series lenses the only AF lenses that report focus
- distance
- > to the camera body? Do any Canon, Minolta, or third-party lenses do
- this?
-
- Don't most autofocus point-and-shoots do this? My understanding is that
- they use the "flashmatic" system that controls light output by distance
- from the camera of the subject. This would require some sort of
- information from the autofocus system.
-