Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think you had a bad one. I'll send you a couple of images. On 10/29/05 4:28 PM, "David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote: > I don't think its better than the 11-22 at all. Everytime I used that > thing I got nothing but soft, soft photos that simply didn't cut it. > It was in no way sharp - not even close. When I sold it I remember > thinking that this was what the old sigma/tokina/etc lenses used to > look like in the 80s - suck, suck, suck. > > Perhaps mine was defective, or perhaps I am actually out of my > bleeping mind - but it was B A D. > > Oh, I used it on an E300 with updated firmware - hunt, hunt, hunt. Suck. > > Dave > > > > > On 10/29/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: >> I have found that it definitely hunted on the E-1, but was much better on >> the E-300 and E-500 - the reality being that Olympus has improved the >> autofocus in the body. As to it's not being sharp - yr out of yr bleeping >> mind; that lens is markedly better than the zooms. ;-) >> >> >> On 10/29/05 2:13 PM, "David C. Mason" <dcm@pobox.com> wrote: >> >>> Weren't the subway shots done with the 50mm lens? I had that lens for >>> a while and sold it because it "hunted" far too much in AF and >>> usually lost the hunt. Plus, it wasn't the sharpest of the lot either >>> - not a good lens, especially considering how good that 11-22mm lens >>> is - that thing has to be one of the sharpest I have ever owned... >>> including my Leica lenses. >>> >>> opinions are mine >>> >>> Dave >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/29/05, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote: >>>> I present these purely as an equipment test, NOT as examples of >>>> photography >>>> worth comment.:-) >>>> But after all the back and forth about where the E-500 was or wasn't >>>> focusing... >>>> I think I focused on the right-hand eye - my right hand - in both of >>>> these.. >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Qtip1 >>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/B-D-COLEN-PAW/Qtip2 >>>> Both were shot with the E-500, 11-22 mm zoom at 11 (35 mm equiv is 22 >>>> mm) - >>>> f 2.8, 400 iso. This result suggests to me that any focusing errors in >>>> those >>>> subway shots were mine, and had to do with train motion, my motion, and >>>> shooting in haste to avoid being punched - :-) - and had nothing to do >>>> with >>>> the camera. >>>> >>>> And, yes, her name is Qtip - she's all white with a smudge on the top of >>>> her >>>> head. I kept trying to force every one to call her Mona, because she was >>>> doing that constantly until she was, uh, altered. But needless to say, I >>>> lost out on that one. :-) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information