Hi,

Does any one know why the EOS 1V does not have an eye controlled focus like the EOS 3

Thank's, Ofir.

-- Ofir (ofirco@hotmail.com), July 14, 2001

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Ofir.

-- Ofir Cohen (ofirco@hotmail.com), July 14, 2001.

Quick answer before the moderator hits :

1. Because manually choosing an AF sensor is faster in many situations, even letting the camera choose one may be faster, and often the ECF chooses a sensor the photographer doesn't plan to use.

2. Because a professional camera may be property of an image agency or newspaper, which will hand it to a various staff members. ECF works for one eye only, and you can't reset it like a custom function; so no-one in the staff could use ECF anyway.

3. Because Canon's marketing division wanted to force those who consider ECF the best invention since the discovery of photosensitive salts to buy two camera bodies.

I know ECF only too well and usually switch it off. I leave CF 4 set to '1' (or whatever it is to activate the AF by pressing the AE lock button--haven't changed it since the beginning), use only one AF sensor, and recompose after having focussed, I'm faster than with several sensors and ECF.

-- Oliver Schrinner (piraya@hispavista.com), July 14, 2001.