[Leica] 560MM leica lens

[jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)]

Henning,
All the new Nikon telephotos, at least, have what is called a M/A switch -
you can use a manual focus override even if the body is on autofocus mode. I
use this to fine tune focusing all the time on my 200-400. My view is, at
least for wildlife photography, capturing action is much easier with
autofocus. For static subjects, manual focus would be fine.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Henning Wulff <henningw at 
archiphoto.com>wrote:

> I think these lenses were priced up to $20,000 or so, and in the 80's when
> they were trying to unload them they offered a free car (VW Fox; Brazilian
> made) with the lens.
>
> They are also a true long focus lens, not telephoto so are about 800mm
> long. This one has a triplet of very large size (f/6.3) with exotic 
> glasses;
> not easy to make, use (or sell :-)).
>
> As for the quality of the 400 and 560 f/6.8's vs. newer lens, the newer
> lenses will win in general. A new AF300/2.8 Nikkor with 2x teleconverter
> will probably have more even performance, but won't be better in the center
> than the 560. The 300 alone will be a noticeable amount better than the
> older lenses.
>
> If you don't practice a lot with the slide focussing, autofocus will
> definitely give you more useable shots of animals out in the open. In the
> bush, autofocus is a pain and really doesn't work.
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