[Leica] Leica Lenses on Sony /A7s

[Robert Adler]

Yes and because I had trouble focusing without stopping down, it's going to
cost me the price of several ND screw-on filters. Outings with Frank can be
expensive...
;-)


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com>
wrote:

> 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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Bob Adler