[Arthur Macmillan]

In case my meaning did not come across, what I meant was that the manual focusing system seems really good on the manual focus bodies that I have from my legacy glass buying days.  It seems really easy to get sharp focus with the view finders and  MF lenses that were made for each other.  It also doesn't hurt that the cameras and lenses were often very compact.  MF with modern cameras is much more difficult.  Anyways, I never have used any of the old cameras that simply were the cap on the back of the lens that I wanted, but I have looked through the viewfinder and got a feel of what is was like.  It will probably never be practical to make a digital camera this way, but it might be fun if some camera maker decided to make a low end MF DSLR camera for legacy lenses.  It would have a low cost 35mm sensor and depend on the long throw, parfocal, and one touch lenses of the old days.  The camera would probably cost the same as an entry level dslr, but the lenses would be practically free.  And it might be fun to use such a camera.

 

I have many old bodies that should probably be thrown away, but I just throw them in a storage bin.  I have Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Minolta, Pentax, Ricoh, Mamiya, Konica, and more.  The Canon and Nikon seem like focusing them is simple.  Of course, not having taken photos with them it is only an impression that the focusing is very easy.  It sure seems like it is, though.