Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Frank, Here is Bjorn Rorslett's view (from a paid site) on the new Nikon Df viewfinder for manual focusing. I have not tried it, so I cannot personally endorse what he says, but he has been one of the best reviewers of Nikon gear over the years, giving it as it is, warts and all: "The finder of the Df, however, is made to be useful with manual lenses. The screen is a type B, matte adorned with an outline of focus points, and while the entire finder gives a clear, crisp and bright impression as you lift the camera and look into the finder, the view is no longer overly bright. Instead, the focused plane of the image snaps in and out of focus as it should do. Exactly how the Nikon engineers managed this feat of redesign is unclear to me, but the finder surely works well with say 50/1.2 Nikkor or the 58 mm f/1.2 Noct, to name but a few I tested so far. This focusability extends to wide fast lenses such as 24/2 or 35/1.4 as well, and fast and long lenses now is a breeze. It remains to be seen whether the slower lenses are equally well handled. I had no issues with the 25-50/4 zoom though and this has been problematic on the DSLRs earlier. Later I hook up the Df to some of my ?ber-long cannons such as the 800/8 ED, 1000/11 Reflex, or the king of them all, the 360-1200/11. However, on my current trip the longest lens travelling with me is the Voigtl?nder 180/4 APO again chosen because it has been a difficult-to-focus item." Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Frank Filippone <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > > In any event, the A7 is high on my want list, but I will probably wait till > Nikon makes a similar functionality camera.... then my lenses can be > focused > while wide open.... and smaller apertures used for actual capture. > > It will be interesting to see how the A7 works for me.... > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at verizon.net