[Leica] Leica Lenses on Sony /A7s

[Robert Adler]

You can never go back...


On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net>
wrote:

> Hey, it weren't my fault....
>
> If you object, get one of those old fashioned RF cameras......
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Robert Adler
> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2014 10:06 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica Lenses on Sony /A7s
>
> 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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> >
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Bob Adler