Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] More M8 questions
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Sun Apr 1 07:52:48 2007

Stop down the 50/1.4 Nikkor? I'm not sure I've ever done that. ;-)

I'll give it a shot after church.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Dante
Stella
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 9:43 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] More M8 questions


Jeffery:

Pretty easy - does the image quality get *worse* as you stop down?

Dante

On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> I have the M8 and the 50/1.4 Nikkor LTM. How do I go about testing
> the two
> together for a focus shift?
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Dante
> Stella
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 8:43 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: [Leica] More M8 questions
>
>
>
> Ok, having decided that the M8 project is not coming out of pocket, I
> have offed a Fuji MF camera, 3 superspeed Nikon primes, one midrange
> Nikon zoom, and 73 miscellaneous items.  I am down to the "gap"
> financing - which might be to sell a Kodak 14n.  Or maybe I'll just
> suck up the rest (a few hundred dollars at this point) in cash.
>
> But I still am in the "is Paris well worth a Mass?" stage.  Some
> questions:
>
> 1.    Has anyone shot both the Leica and the 14n?  Does the Leica have
> comparable tonality and exposure latitude?  Does the M8 have any
> automatic highlight recovery capability (like Kodak's digital
> exposure correction)?
>
> 2.    Is the 35mm f/1.4 Summilux-M asph focus shift a real problem or
> internet bunk?  This was the lens I was really looking forward to
> using on the M8, but there seems to be some indication that it
> focuses correctly only from f/1.4 to f/4.
>
> 3.    Do 50/1.4 Nikkor (LTM) lenses exhibit focus shifts?
>
> 4.    Has anyone had to have lenses recollimated to focus properly (at
> infinity) on an M8?
>
> Thanks
> Dante
>
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