[Leica] Leica Lenses on Sony /A7s

[Richard Man]

Ah, so you are the infamous "Frank" in Bob's blog :-)


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:

> Amen.  But if you use the lens wide open, an EVF is a wonderful tool....
>
> Now this is true no matter camera you use... Bob Adler and I went out
> shooting this past week.... I with a M9, he with his ALPA.
>
> Now Bob was focusing in bright sunlight on the side of a building.... ie, a
> non-moving subject.  To not saturate his sensor, he had to do this at F32.
> We spent a good 15 minutes with his giant ground glass ( Surface Pad with
> appropriate SW) to be sure that focus was attained..... Focusing at F32 is
> pretty hard to do .....not that it is dark, but that the DOF hides the true
> focus plane.....
>
> Clear message... open up that lens to its widest aperture to focus, then
> shut down during exposure..... which is what happens automatically to most
> all lenses made since 1965 or so...
>
> And in general, does not happen with cross platform lenses and bodies.....
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> >
> > I am now of the firm opinion that Leica M lenses are only suitable for
> Leica rangefinder bodies.  No matter what fancy electronic focusing system
> is developed in the future there is no way around the fact that you must
> focus wide open to nail focus when viewing through the lens.
>
>
>
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