Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I really don't understand what you are saying, Steve. I bought the Fuji to use Auto-focus. The photos with the Fuji that are out of focus are all because something changed on the camera. They are not just focused on the wrong spot. They are totally out of focus either because manual focus was turned on, or, for a few, because the aperture was changed to 22 and there was not enough light. With the 14/2.8 lens, there are at least 3 ways to accidentally change to manual focus. Every time I picked up the camera some setting had changed. Evidently my hands hit right where that MCS switch is on the front. It happened so many times that I had to check every setting on the camera every time I started to use it. With the 14/2.8 lens the collar would slip back, making the lens manual focus. I don't chimp that often so I sometimes took hours worth of photos before realizing that the camera was not focusing. When my Leica photos are out of focus it's because I couldn't see well enough to focus the camera. There is no auto-focus failure. Tina On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 14, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > ALL of the out of focus errors with the Fuji were caused by a switch or > > button or lens collar moving to a different position by itself. > > > Tina, the subject of this e-mail is statistics... I have shot with both > Fuji and Leica. I reluctantly have to offer a couple thoughts, > > 1.this simply does not happen. (bouncing in a truck or changes by curious > kids playing is different). If this were to explain all, then no exposures > are oof for any of the usual reasons > 2.when you shoot with the leica, for each image, the settings will be > reset in any case. > 3.people in the past have noted that a high % of difficult leica exposures > are oof...this has ranged from perhaps 10% to a majority of times.... > > (the common problem that can be very hard and annoying to find initially > is a change in the switch on the front, but one learns, as Frank Dernie > mentioned.) > > > > The manual > > focus switch on the front, the aperture ring, the manual/auto focus > collar > > on the lenses, the exposure controls all moved too easily, especially > > bouncing in the back of a truck or messed with by curious kids. I got so > > paranoid that I had to check every setting before I took a photo; > > therefore, I used the Leicas more and more on the trip. > > > > Tina > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Frank Dernie < > Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > > wrote: > > > >> The focus (or oof) rate is very interesting. > >> My observation with autofocus has always been that unless I take a long > >> time making sure the autofocus sensor is exactly where I wish focus to > >> fall, or I am using a slowish zoom, stopped down, autofocus shots often > >> disappoint by not quite having focus where I want it. > >> Is this the possibly why you rejected so many of the Fuji shots, or were > >> they mainly macro (which almost always have some oof problems IME...). > Or > >> is it just me who hasn't mastered autofocus for anything other than > >> quicksilver grandchildren! > >> Frank D > >> > >> On 13 Jul, 2014, at 22:25, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > >> > >>> PESO: > >>> > >>> This is the kind of thing you can research when you have LR ;-) > >>> > >>> I have finally finished editing all of the photos from Honduras. I > took > >>> 1839 photos in all: 869 with the Fuji, 549 with the M240, and 411 with > >> the > >>> MM. > >>> > >>> Of those, I deleted 243 that were out of focus: 206 with the Fuji, 23 > >> with > >>> the M240, and 14 with the MM. > >>> > >>> From the remaining, I gave my highest rating of 4 stars to 103 photos: > 33 > >>> with the Fuji, 22 with the M240, and 48 with the MM. > >>> > >>> Of the 7 lenses I used, the ones that did the best were the Leica > 35/2.0, > >>> Leica 50/1.4, and Leica 90/2.0. > >>> > >>> What I have concluded is that I love the results I get with the MM. I > >> will > >>> be carrying it more often in the future, along with those three lenses. > >>> > >>> I'm not giving up on the Fuji, but it certainly did not solve my > focusing > >>> problem and I was encouraged by the number that I did get in focus with > >> the > >>> Leicas! Maybe all of that focusing I did with the Auto-refractor > helped > >> ;-) > >>> > >>> I hope this is interesting to some. It was invaluable to me. I'll be > >>> posting some of the 4's next week. > >>> > >>> Tina > >>> -- > >>> Tina Manley > >>> http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > >>> http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Tina Manley > > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/