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Subject: [Leica] OT: Focus peaking and an old friend
From: roark.paul at gmail.com (Paul Roark)
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:36:37 -0800
References: <99DA8789-FB7F-4A76-A47B-434DE42C4227@sfr.fr>

Excellent shots.

I wish someone could tell me how to get a net benefit from focus peaking.
 I guess it's a learned skill, and one I have not quite learned yet.  It
seems like it almost needs an adjustment wheel on the camera to be able to
easily and quickly adjust it to the specifics of the subject -- without
having to remove the eye from the viewfinder and going into a menu.  Too
often I find it too strong, annoying and giving what I see as false
in-focus signals with high contrast edges, but then in low contrast areas
it seems too weak.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:22 PM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at 
sfr.fr>wrote:

> I tried my old Angenieux 70 x 3 at 210mm using focus peaking this weekend.
>
> High ISO was necessary for speed as the X-E1 is probably not able to
> resist the weight of a heavy lens without a tripod collar ...
>
> So this is handheld yet focus peaked.
>
> Here at f5.6
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/album368/
> Angenieux+210+-5030.jpg.html
>
> And there at f22
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/album368/Ang__
> nieux+f22-5016.jpg.html
>
>
> Bien cordialement de Metz
> Philippe
>
>
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