[Leica] Focus Peaking

[Bob Adler]

And remember that with the 240 you cannot move the magnified area around in live view.  So with w/a you have to move  the camera which stinks on a tripod. 

Best to guess with a w/a, set a desired aperture, use the dof scale on the lense and then review magnified in the EVF (which you can move around). 
Hand held is more practical but not as sharp in most cases. 

Bob Adler

> On Dec 24, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> I am not sure which camera you are using.... some allow the "in focus" FP
> range to be adjusted.  Read the manual if you are not sure.
> 
> I do not use focus peaking.. I use the magnification feature, and do the
> equivalent of ground glass focusing.  Lots of fun to watch the focus move
> THROUGH the eyeball.... GG focusing is excellent because you watch the focus
> change,,, and therefore get in focus what you want, precisely.
> 
> In general, and I think Steve Barbour said it, that EVF make the hard to
> focus lenses easier, and the easy to focus lenses harder.....  The issue is
> DOF at focusing aperture.
> Use faster lenses, open the lens for focusing then shut down to working
> aperture ( a genuine PITA that I gave up when I was 13, and do not wish to
> go backwards), or just shoot wide open....
> 
> Remember, you are using the sensor to focus... any focus errors are
> yours.... 
> 
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Don Dory
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 8:05 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Focus Peaking
> 
> Hi Stan,
> Typically, I set the focus peaking at low which minimizes the peaking over
> shoot.  What you will find yourself doing is upgrading your wides to ones
> that have a very high inherent contrast such as the newer Leica M wides.
> 
> I have had great luck focus peaking with the 24 Apo Elmarit and the 21 F1.4
> .  Using the 21 R lens I get the same result that you are getting; I have
> found that I set the focus distance by scale and confirm by peaking.
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Stan Yoder <s.yoder at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Folks, When I employ F-P, there's always a range where the red 
>> outlines appear, due to DoF. That can be narrowed by opening up to max 
>> aperture, but it's still there, esp. with wides. Seems to me the 
>> rangefinder is more definite. How do you deal with this?
>> 
>> Stan Yoder
> 
> 
> 
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