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Subject: [Leica] [LRflex] Re: looking down...
From: philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard)
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 20:36:08 +0100
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Le 9 d?c. 13 ? 19:05, Steve Barbour a ?crit :

>
> On Dec 9, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Is that a "yes" to both questions
>>
>> IF so, that is good news.
>
>
> there is some decrease in brightness so good and bad news, but thre  
> is absolutely no loss of ability to focus until f22
>
> let me explain Aram...
>
> The R 19mm aperture setting goes from f 2.8 to f22....
>
> While the vf brightness diminishes slowly as the aperture size is  
> reduced, the vf is bright enough that I  can focus to f16 (easily  
> with focus peaking).

No need to focus wih an UWA lens at that aperture setting Steve ...

Chapter one of the book ;-)

Well, I'm Philippe after all ;-)


>
> and of course with such a small aperture the dof is huge.
>
> You can try this yourself in a store,  to see what I mean.
>
> bottom line...this body and lens, under the conditions I described,  
> with focus peaking in red and jpeg fine bw, is easier to manually  
> focus than M's and R's....
>
> this means that you, if you wish, can shoot RAW, and jpeg fine bw,  
> focus peaking in red at the same time, have a very easy time with  
> manual focus open or stopped down, and have excellent focus  
> simultaneously  with RAW files.
>
>
> steve
>
>
>> Aram
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:33 AM
>> To: "LRflex" <leicareflex at freelists.org>
>> Subject: [LRflex] Re: looking down...
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Aram Langhans <leica_r8 at hotmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So, what happens as you stop down.  does exposure remain  
>>>> constant?  Does the viewfinder compensate and hold its  
>>>> brightness?  These are the two main gripes for those using R  
>>>> glass on Canon and Nikon.
>>>
>>>
>>> yes...
>>>
>>>
>>> yes it was, esp Canon, gave up all that a long time ago
>>>
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Aram
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:19 AM
>>>> To: "LUG Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "LRflex" <leicareflex at 
>>>> freelists.org 
>>>> >
>>>> Subject: [LRflex] looking down...
>>>>
>>>>> R 19mm f2.8 on A7r with setting,  aperture priority, fp in red,  
>>>>> manual focus on shoes at f2.8, from bw jpeg fine
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/barbour/paw2013/shoes.jpg.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> steve
>>>>>
>>>>>
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