Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People who have been on the list more than a week know that no one decides when the thread is over except Brian our beer keeper. The way a thread ends is when the last person who feels like posting to it posts to it.. Then a lurker sees it a week later and says something. In my experience declaring that a thread is over just encourages people to continue with it. Get the last word in. Mark William Rabiner Photography http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > From: jon streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:58:47 -0800 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon > > Hey, I wanted to be the one who issues a ruling that everyone ELSE has said > too much and that it's MY turn to utter the last word and order the > discussion > closed. When's it going to be MY turn to do that?! Sent from my Verizon > Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" > <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: > [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon Date: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 5:57 pm Gene, Are > you telling be that sending lens and body to Solms is a better solution than > spending a few minutes in your house to solve the same problem? Methinks you > doth protest too much! I personally think the Leica bunch is much more > credulous and much less critical of their company's and equipment shortcomings > than the others, that is all. Anyway, enough has been said on this subject, > all points of view thrashed out, I personally think it is getting to be a bit > of a bore... We will all continue doing what we want to > do! Cheers Jayanand Sent from my iPad On 01-Dec-2012, at 3:10 AM, > grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > Jayanand, > > I'm sorry, but I agree with Doug. > These cameras and lenses should be right when they get to the user, and not > require user adjustments to work correctly. So far, My D4 and AF-S lenses > have been right on when I received them, and I expect them to be correct. > Would you not expect your new car or TV to be working correctly when you > get > them? It seems that today everyone expects defects (except the Leica > bunch), > and that buying a software fix is just fine. Oh, your lens is soft, just > run > the files through So & So Software and it will be sharp. Sorry not for me. > Why even buy a N or C lens then, any old piece of junk will do just fine > after > running the software lens fix. > > Cheers, > Gene > > ----- Original Message > ----- > From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> > To: "Leica Users > Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 9:09:11 AM > GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central > Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on > Nikon > > They are absolutely excellent wildlife shooting machines and I am > willing > to put the time taken to get them fine tuned and perfect, as are all > the > wildlife photographers I know of, but one. If you think they are > shoddy > don't use them. Period. No one is talking you out of using whatever > > equipment you wish to use. Talk about cognitive bias, narrow mindedness and > > chips on the shoulder. Get a life. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Nov 29, > 2012 at 8:31 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net < > > wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > >> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> >> It > took me two hours to calibrate 11 lenses on two bodies. It is not >> > particularly time consuming or difficult. >> >> One would think that it would > take less time to do it as part of >> production. It's shoddy manufacturing. > The cameras are sold defective. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:18 PM, > wildlightphoto at earthlink.net < >> wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >> >>> > Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >>> >>> 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. >>> <<< >>> >>> One must wonder why AF SLR cameras aren't made > with less variance and why >>> the onus of focus accuracy is dumped on the > user. OTOH, more profits for >>> LensAlign. >>> >>> Doug Herr >>> Birdman of > Sacramento >>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com >>> >>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> > myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft? 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