Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29

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Subject: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon
From: leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 08:38:24 -0800
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My Nikon lenses are all fine tuned and have performed much better since 
doing that.  Amazing the slop in tolerances in an autofocus lens.  My 
father-in-law bought the 17-55/2.8 and it was so far off he had to exchange 
it for another lens.  It was beyond the fine-tune ability of his D300.

Yet, the Leica glass when focused correctly runs circles around anything 
Nikon I have.

Aram

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From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:21 AM
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon

> As an aside in this discussion, for autofocus lenses and DSLR bodies - get
> something like LensAlign and adjust the focus using the "AF Fine Tune"
> function in the menu. The D700 has the capacity to store values for 12
> lenses, and the D800 for 20 lenses. Once you test and store the values for
> a lens, and switch on the "AF Fine Tune" function, the values will
> automatically be used when you mount the lens. There is considerable
> variance, so this is really worth doing.
>
> Focusing with Live View will always be spot on because you are focusing 
> the
> image on the sensor itself, unlike an image on the viewfinder.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
> wrote:
>
>> I have a Brightscreen split image/microprism for my D800E (still not
>> fitted!) but I think the company has no folded.
>> http://www.brightscreenstore.com/
>>
>> john
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> I also have a KatzEye split image/microprism screen for the D7000 (to use
>> the manual focus CZ Planar 100) It greatly improves brightness and 
>> manual
>> focus useability with conventional AF Nikkors here too.
>> No such screen will be made for the D600 and I think the D800 iterations
>> either.
>> I had zero metering problems whatsoever with Nikkors nor the Planar
>> personally.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Geoff
>>
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>
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Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon)
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