[Leica] The long awaited R lens to SL body adapter.....

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

I just think they understand their customers better than the customers
understand themselves!
Cheers
Jayanand

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> On 23-Jul-2016, at 22:47, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> If our assumptions are correct:....I will state the obvious.....
>
> Without the ability to read the selected aperture, the camera can only meter
> at working aperture....  which means that the user needs to open the lens up
> to focus, shut the lens down ( this is all manual manipulation of the
> aperture setting), then take the image......    not exactly smooth
> operation......  or use the lens at full aperture.... which is a more
> specialized solution....
>
> In the 60's, when I started to take pictures with my Miranda SLR, this
> technology was already replaced by lenses that at least had the ability to
> have a preset aperture.... you spun a ring around to reach correct
> aperture,,,, without thinking at least...  I think that the Exakta camera
> offered this in the 50's, and the Pentacon ( first SLR) had this feature in
> the 40's (?)
>
> Novoflex either does or will offer a similar functionality that may not read
> the lens FL ( which is only useful for some lens corrections ( LR will do
> this automatically as well IF you can remember what lens you used..) and for
> putting the data into the EXIF fields... for what has been their price of
> around $200   Or buy a Chinese knockoff with the same capability for about
> $20......
>
> SO the real choice is.... spend $750 on the Leica adapter or $20 on the
> Chinese adapter..... Each has about the same functionality.....
>
> They must be kidding......we MUST be not understanding the complete
> picture.....  A few weeks will put some of these into users hands, and we
> can find out what the thing really does.... or does not do.....
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
> There is no aperture control, all it can do is read ROM data of focal length
> - seems a lot of money (even by Leica standards) for what it is!
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> Apparently it is starting to ship..
>
>
> BUT..
>
>
> "The Leica R-Adapter L cannot read the selected aperture set on the lens.
> Instead, the camera uses the same technology to estimate the aperture as
> with M-lenses mounted via an adapter."
>
>
> There is still no info that I can find that says the lens aperture is open
> during focusing, then closed down during image creation... And the inability
> to read the lens' aperture setting is disturbing...For $750, you would
> expect more...
>
>
> Frank Filippone
>
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
>
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