[Leica] EVF cameras and especially non native lenses.....

[John McMaster]

If you are happy with manual focus (and can afford it) then the M is hard to beat IMO...

john

-----Original Message-----
From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+john=mcmaster.co.nz at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Frank Filippone
Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2014 8:45 a.m.
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: [Leica] EVF cameras and especially non native lenses.....

I have been on the hunt for my "ideal" camera.
The Nikon D7100 is pretty good, lenses that are light in weight are pretty marginal in performance.  ( relative to Leica lenses)  and it does not offer a EVF.
The Fuji XE-1 is pretty great, but the smaller sensor is not quite as useful as a FF sensor would be, for WA lenses.  I routinely shoot with the WATE and a 21.
I was lucky enough to get a used A7 from a friend of a Lugger recently.
Bolted on a Leica 24 mm lens and went a shootin....
What I have noted is that as a WA shooter, it is really pretty hard to focus precisely, due to the great DOF WA lenses offer....  Even magnifying the EVF, the real plane of focus hardly is obvious....  Of course, the DOF helps to get well focused images even if the precise focus plane is not right on the money.

My M ( put in a number here) never did this.. it was always as easy or as hard to focus, no matter what lens.  And ewhen in calibration, it absolutely put the focus plane where it should have been, according to the VF.

A Native Sony lens on this camera would be no easier to manually focus, an AF Lens would be trivial.....
I am learning a lesson....  My "ideal" camera has yet to be invented......or at least, it would need new AF lenses to go with....

I am somewhat inspired to say that the M (Type 240) is as close, on specs, to "ideal" as can be gotten.....
EVF when you need it, Optical RF when you need it... best of both worlds.....

Then again, I have said that before, different camera, same words...... 

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net