Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] Leica r sm m glass on Fuji x
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:38:29 -0700

I have been delighted with the performance of my film era glass on my stack 
of Fuji x pros.  Obviously there are some challenges my 16mm zuiko was iffy 
(but the $120 7artisans is superb) the trombone focus 400 500 awkward but 
perform okay.  

Most zuikos good
Nikkors too
Rokkor x not so much

Do love adapt all 300. 17 etc
Sent from my iPhone

> On Apr 11, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Craig Schroeder <craig at craigschroeder.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Some of my all-time favorite film era lenses have left me luke-warm on my 
> Fuji X bodies.  I have found no consistent predictor, either.  Part of my 
> initial choice of the Fuji X system was its adaptability for my legacy 
> lenses.  The digital Fuji and Zeiss optics that I've accumulated have been 
> better or easily the equal of the best of my old glass so I've just 
> drifted from dealing with them and the Fuji.... It's beyond my elementary 
> understanding of light angles and how they strike the sensor that perhaps 
> wasn't an issue with film but rears its head in the digital applications?  
> For some reason my old Contax G 45 and 90 are quite good on the Fuji 
> bodies but I have found it easier to use new glass in those focal ranges 
> anyway and tend to not use them either.
> 
>> On 4/11/2018 5:42 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
>> If you do not like to read about testing, and you got this far, best hit 
>> the
>> delete key.  No whining allowed.
>> 
>> 
> 
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