Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It's manual focus. On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote: > i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to focus > the thing? > > i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question > > ric > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:22 PM, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > >> BJP also said the X1 was terribly slow storing images and had very >> noticeable shutter lag. Outside of that they liked it. >> >> Gene >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> >> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 4:39:56 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central >> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment? >> >> Leica has said they're not going to be further involved with the 4/3 >> S system. We should take that to our own hearts. It came out with the X1. >> Its the only compact camera you can use for stock. That was announced >> today >> on the British Journal of Photography. I'd recommend you guys stop >> endlessly buying and selling and playing around with toy cameras. >> Especially >> rumors of them. Who cares? >> Non micro 4/3's went out because for half the image capture size you >> got......? You got nothing. The cameras were the same size if not bigger >> than existing and coming out 1.5 crop cameras. And they cost more. >> >> A 1.5 crop camera you can now use for sketching. And occasional serious >> image where a real compact camera really helped. >> 1x crop is what Barnack would be shooting if he was cruising the streets >> of >> Wetzlar and Cologne (K?ln) right now. >> >> If you guys were shooting film would you be out with a stupid Minox?!?!?! >> >> -------------------- >> Mark William Rabiner >> Photography >> mark at rabinergroup.com >> >> >>> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:14:40 +0200 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment? >>> >>> Could it be Kaufman's satisfactory solution for R users ? >>> >>> Ph >>> >>> Le 25 ao?t 10 ? 18:58, Jeffery Smith a ?crit : >>> >>>> >>>> The 4/3 rumor site has it that there is a rangefinder company ready >>>> to announce a 4/3 camera in the next few hours. I'm wondering if it >>>> is Cosina/Voigtlander. >>>> >>>> http://www.43rumors.com/ >>>> >>>> Jeffery >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information