Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My Nikon lenses are all fine tuned and have performed much better since doing that. Amazing the slop in tolerances in an autofocus lens. My father-in-law bought the 17-55/2.8 and it was so far off he had to exchange it for another lens. It was beyond the fine-tune ability of his D300. Yet, the Leica glass when focused correctly runs circles around anything Nikon I have. Aram -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 6:21 AM To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitaxed R lenses on Nikon > As an aside in this discussion, for autofocus lenses and DSLR bodies - get > something like LensAlign and adjust the focus using the "AF Fine Tune" > function in the menu. The D700 has the capacity to store values for 12 > lenses, and the D800 for 20 lenses. Once you test and store the values for > a lens, and switch on the "AF Fine Tune" function, the values will > automatically be used when you mount the lens. There is considerable > variance, so this is really worth doing. > > Focusing with Live View will always be spot on because you are focusing > the > image on the sensor itself, unlike an image on the viewfinder. > > Cheers > Jayanand > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:33 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> > wrote: > >> I have a Brightscreen split image/microprism for my D800E (still not >> fitted!) but I think the company has no folded. >> http://www.brightscreenstore.com/ >> >> john >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> I also have a KatzEye split image/microprism screen for the D7000 (to use >> the manual focus CZ Planar 100) It greatly improves brightness and >> manual >> focus useability with conventional AF Nikkors here too. >> No such screen will be made for the D600 and I think the D800 iterations >> either. >> I had zero metering problems whatsoever with Nikkors nor the Planar >> personally. >> >> >> Cheers, >> Geoff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >