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The autofocus on Japanese SLRs required Manhattan project engineering

They used a bunch of mirrors to bounce light though some pri...
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  12/09/25


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Date: December 9th, 2025 12:34 AM
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They used a bunch of mirrors to bounce light though some prisms to decide when the camera was in focus. Now a computer does it. All that effort and ingenuity turned out to be a dead end technologically. We can forget it ever happened and lose no useful knowledge

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5808207&forum_id=2/en-en/#49495757)