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Subject: [Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R
From: lucien_vd at mac.com (Lucien)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:52:47 -0500
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And it is noisy. 

Much more noisy than the M240. 

Lucien 

> On 20 f?vr. 2014, at 19:39, Jim Gmail <jplaurel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Aren't there a lot if reported issues with adapted lenses? The Leica M 
> primes, at least, seem to perform much better on the M240 than on the A7.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 15:38, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Except that it will fit nearly every 35mm lens in the book, LTM, M, and R,
>> as well as the native ones.  and the 35 2.8 T* is not too big, larger than
>> a sumicron.
>> 
>> The 55 and 35 may not be crazy interesting, but taken as a package with 
>> the
>> camera, they are pretty sweet.
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at 
>> gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> I wish someone could explain all the hype around the Sony A7 twins. Ok, I
>>> get that it's a full frame mirrorless and that puts it in an exclusive 
>>> club
>>> with just two members, alongside the M240. I understand everyone's desire
>>> for a full frame platform for mounting legacy glass. But as a system in 
>>> its
>>> own right, I don't get it. Sure, the body is small, but so what? Lenses
>>> that produce an image circle suitable for a full frame sensor are going 
>>> to
>>> be just as large as, say, the Canon system. At the end of the day, your 
>>> bag
>>> is going to weigh nearly as much as any other full frame system. You're
>>> only saving a ounces on the body. And that assumes that there are
>>> interesting native mount lenses for the A7, which there aren't...not yet,
>>> anyway...
>>> 
>>> --Jim
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I came into the photo game after they put in the click stops so I hadn't
>>>> done much shooting at f 2.7 or f9 or 101st of a second.!
>>>> Things were pretty much rounded off for me! I'd have a had a hard time
>>>> getting my head around  f9. Did it exist?
>>>> When the A & P  settings got put in camera bodies  in I think the early
>>> 80's
>>>> I did use these and any odd settings as that's what the A settings on my
>>>> cameras gave me.  Though you could not see it in any metadata you could
>>>> remember they were there!!
>>>> In a way of thinking it was an added level of precision which I thought
>>> was
>>>> pretty cool! Of a sky needed 101st of a second that's what it got!
>>>> Not some measly 100th just so the thing would go click!
>>>> 
>>>> Is a one percent level of precision something I should NOT be worried
>>> about?
>>>> Sure! But I'll take it if they're handing it to me.  And all those 1%
>>> levels
>>>> of precision on the myriad areas of camerawork add up I should think.
>>>> 
>>>> The major thing about auto settings is really about loosing less shots 
>>>> as
>>>> you've got your eye more on the subject than needle or led's or controll
>>>> knobs. Your not constantly trying to maintain your exposure you just 
>>>> know
>>>> its there!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Mark William Rabiner
>>>> Photographer
>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
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>> 
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Replies: Reply from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R)
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