Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 10:40 AM 3/23/99 -0500, you wrote: > >The surgery was only supposed to take about > >five minutes and I could image trying to fumble with focusing and getting > >only one or two photos, so I took my Minolta 9xi in addition to my Leica > >M6. The noise was awful and I spent most of the time trying to get the > >blamed thing to focus on what I wanted it to and not what it wanted to! > > Tina, you M user you... > > You, certainly are enlightened enough to know what's what. An R8 with a 100 > Apo Macro would have been your tool for such a surgery! :-) > > I have tried AF with macro before (Nikon F5 and 60 Micro) and find the AF > totally useless in such applications. I can see where you might think AF is > the way to go, but not for anything closeup, especially with a wide > aperture. Glad it worked out for you in the end. > snip I also wondered if the close focusing limits of your Leica M were tested. I must admit the 200 macro AF on the Nikon would seem a nifty tool in such a situation if not the 105. I have the 105 non AF bought 2 months before the AF was introduced. So as I typed this I just stuck on my new 135 apo to check out how small an area it covered at closest range and it is not hurtin!. Mark :-) Rabiner