Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]By original post I was refering to Mikiro's, not your own. > >No, nowhere did I imply that one would accurately a 50 F1... >One of the most useful things Erwin ever posted was the >analysis of the "probable" focusing accuracy of said RFDR.... >I didn't save it, maybe someone else has it.....but it confirmed >what we leica users new 20 years ago -- empirically, of course... >For example, I shoot a LOT with a 90 Summicron (old style/and current) >I can hit 2 out of 3 on a good day, wide open, at less than 15 feet or >so....wide open....but it's still a crap shoot at wider than >f2.8 or 4....unless you're 40 feet, then no problem....portraits >are a nightmare with a 90 f2 or 75 1.4 at 6-7 feet! >Give me FAST normal to wide lenses on the Leica, and a 105 1.8 on the >Nikon with a brightscreen.... >Walt > > >On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:05:46 PDT dan states <dstate1@hotmail.com> wrote: >> Umm...So they can focus a 50 f1 accuratly, per the original post, but >> nothing else?? >> >> >> >> >> >From: Walter S Delesandri <walt@jove.acs.unt.edu> >> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> >CC: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >> >Subject: Re: [Leica] 75'lux focusing >> >Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:42:07 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) >> > >> >it's probably that the M6 can't focus a 75 at 1.4...oops, the >> >company forgot to tell you that....sorry..... >> >BTW, it can't do much better with a 90 @ f2....they forgot >> >to tell you that, too... >> >That's why God made Nikons....;) :) :) >> > >> >Walt >> > >> > >> >On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:43:52 +0200 Mikiro Mori <arbos@silva.net> >> wrote: >> >> 75 Summilux users, >> >> >> >> Sorry if there was recent discussion on this topic. ---- I have >> used a 75 >> >> Summilux for 18 months, but have not yet learned to focus properly. >> At >> >> f1.4-2, I make errors (both forward and backward) in >70% of the >> shots. I >> >> use an M6 (classic), and the objects are usually at about 1.5-2 m >> away. >> >> With a Nocti, I seem to be doing better even at f1. Also, I have >> much fewer >> >> problems with an 80 Summilux-R at wide open. >> >> >> >> Is it a problem only with me, or do many of the users have >> difficulties >> >> focusing with this lens? M6HM may help, but 0.85/0.72 is only an >> 18% >> >> increase. Inability to focus at wide open halves the value of this >> lens. >> >> Please help. >> >> >> >> Leicalement, >> >> >> >> Mikiro >> >> Strasbourg, France >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________ >> Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com > > _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com