[Leica] EVF cameras and especially non native lenses.....

[steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)]

> On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
> 
> I have been on the hunt for my "ideal" camera.
> The Nikon D7100 is pretty good, lenses that are light in weight are pretty
> marginal in performance.  ( relative to Leica lenses)  and it does not 
> offer
> a EVF.
> The Fuji XE-1 is pretty great, but the smaller sensor is not quite as 
> useful
> as a FF sensor would be, for WA lenses.  I routinely shoot with the WATE 
> and
> a 21.
> I was lucky enough to get a used A7 from a friend of a Lugger recently.
> Bolted on a Leica 24 mm lens and went a shootin....
> What I have noted is that as a WA shooter, it is really pretty hard to 
> focus
> precisely

only because it's almost always in focus....


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> , due to the great DOF WA lenses offer....  Even magnifying the
> EVF, the real plane of focus hardly is obvious....  Of course, the DOF 
> helps
> to get well focused images even if the precise focus plane is not right on
> the money.
> 
> My M ( put in a number here) never did this.. it was always as easy or as
> hard to focus, no matter what lens.  And ewhen in calibration, it 
> absolutely
> put the focus plane where it should have been, according to the VF.
> 
> A Native Sony lens on this camera would be no easier to manually focus, an
> AF Lens would be trivial.....
> I am learning a lesson....  My "ideal" camera has yet to be 
> invented......or
> at least, it would need new AF lenses to go with....
> 
> I am somewhat inspired to say that the M (Type 240) is as close, on specs,
> to "ideal" as can be gotten.....
> EVF when you need it, Optical RF when you need it... best of both
> worlds.....
> 
> Then again, I have said that before, different camera, same words...... 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> 
> 
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