Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Steve: Are you telling me, as a Doctor, that I should take 2 aspirin and stop worrying? Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net -----Original Message----- From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Steve Barbour Sent: Friday, November 21, 2014 3:25 PM To: Leica LUG Subject: Re: [Leica] EVF cameras and especially non native lenses..... > 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.... s > , 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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