Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What use are examples if your mind is closed on this subject? Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > So we'll skip the part about if anybody has ever gotten any results out of > it yet worth looking at I guess. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:55:04 +0530 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Going digital with M lenses (outside of M8/M9)? > > > > Mark, > > If it does not excite you, do not buy/use it. Simple. Period. > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > > > >> The issue is not ease of focusing or stop down shooting but putting an > >> exquisite and pricey and manual Leica lens designed to cover a 24x36mm > area > >> on a camera which has a 18x13.5mm format with a diagonal of 22.5mm and > is > >> otherwise a pile of compact electronics. > >> That does not excite me nor appeal to my common sense. > >> Should such a camera have at least a 1.5 crop , 1.33 crop or 1x crop and > >> have no or minor issues as to seamless use I'd be paying more attention > to > >> that. > >> > >> However this is partly becuae I'm not aware of anybody using such a set > up > >> getting some real results that I can remember seeing. > >> People talk about their cameras. They don't talk about their pictures. > >> If someone has a gallery perhaps on the LUG please direct me to it and > I'm > >> sure seeing a body of work done with such an arrangement would get me to > >> modify my thinking and change my tune. Especially if its an impressive > >> showing. > >> I'm talking about a folder with 4/3s pix in it taken with Leica glass on > a > >> GAF-1 body. Or similar 4/3's option which I seem to be dimly aware of. > >> Perhaps some semi serious application. > >> > >> > >> Mark William Rabiner > >> > >> > >> > >>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:16:08 +0530 > >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Going digital with M lenses (outside of M8/M9)? > >>> > >>> Mark, > >>> As usual, you do not understand context. Well, let me explain. It makes > >> it > >>> irrelevant to go to a lot of trouble to use Leica M lenses on the > camera > >>> bodies under discussion, when using Lumix and/or Olympus lenses is far > >> more > >>> efficient and simple, unless you want to shoot wide open or > thereabouts, > >>> which is Leica's strength over the others. > >>> > >>> Have you tried focusing a 90mm Elamrit M lens on a GF-1 body? Not > >>> surprisingly, I thought you had not. Let me tell you it is no picnic, > and > >> I > >>> would probably just go out and buy a Panasonic 100-300 or something if > I > >>> wanted that range. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Jayanand > >>> > >>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at > >>> rabinergroup.com> > >> wrote: > >>> > >>>> The idea that stopping down makes it irrelevant to use Leica lenes is > >>>> patently absurd. What if you wanted to get something in focus? You > need > >> to > >>>> stop down for most shots. The extremely selective focus thing can only > >> get > >>>> you so far. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Mark William Rabiner > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> From: Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> > >>>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>>>> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:43:23 +0530 > >>>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > >>>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Going digital with M lenses (outside of M8/M9)? > >>>>> > >>>>> They work well, as Nathan says, on the GF-1, but they are very > >> difficult > >>>> to > >>>>> focus properly wide open on the EVF. If you have to stop down, why > use > >>>> Leica > >>>>> lenses in the first place? I think the quality of the viewfinder is > >>>>> critical, so check that out. Alternatively use ultra wides where > >> focusing > >>>> is > >>>>> a non issue. > >>>>> Cheers > >>>>> Jayanand > >>>>> > >>>>> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Nathan Wajsman < > photo at frozenlight.eu > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Hi Jan, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I find that using M lenses on my GF-1 works quite well. I use the > >>>> adapter > >>>>>> from Cameraquest. In fact, I just bought the 12mm non-rangefinder > >>>> coupled CV > >>>>>> lens, and it works brilliantly on the GF-1. And of course the fact > >> that > >>>> it > >>>>>> is not rangefinder-coupled is of no consequence in this case. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Cheers, > >>>>>> Nathan > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Nathan Wajsman > >>>>>> Alicante, Spain > >>>>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu > >>>>>> http://www.greatpix.eu > >>>>>> http://www.nathanfoto.com > >>>>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > >>>>>> Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > >>>>>> > >>>>>> YNWA > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Jun 26, 2011, at 6:13 PM, Jan Decher wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Hi Folks, > >>>>>>> What's currently the best way to take my M and ZM lenses to > digital > >>>>>>> (outside of M8/M9)? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> I considering buying a Micro 4/3rds body (Olympus, Panasonic) > perhaps > >>>>>> with > >>>>>>> one indigenous "pancake-type" lens and the M adapter. Any issues > >> with > >>>>>>> metering, manual focussing etc. to be aware of? > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> Which adapter is the best (Novoflex, CameraQuest, EBAY > >> China-made...)? > >>>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>>> Jan > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > >>>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > information > >>>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >