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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 12/9/2020: testing the Fotodiox AF adapter
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 15:54:18 +0530
References: <11772264-58AA-4248-913C-62EDCA385961@frozenlight.eu>

Works well.

I am pondering whether to get a Fotodiox Tilt/Shift adapter to use Mamiya
645 lenses on the Nikon Z7, as an inexpensive way to learn tilt & shift
techniques. Haven't decided yet.

Cheers
Jayanand

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 11:26 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> I don?t buy much new equipment these days; by and large, I have what I
> need. But occasionally, something really compelling comes along. I recently
> saw an ad for a Fotodiox adapter to mount Leica lenses on Fuji X cameras,
> and I bought one. It arrived on Friday, and yesterday I tried it with the
> 90mm Elmarit on my Fuji X-T2. Basically, it looks like a thicker version of
> a regular lens adapter, and it is slightly bigger at the bottom, but not
> overly large. You mount the lens, roughly focus the lens (to, say, 5 meters
> for regular street photography, 1 meter for close-ups and infinity for
> subjects far away but necessarily infinity). According to the manual, this
> pre-focusing is only needed on telephoto lenses. But my interest is
> precisely to use the magnificent 90mm on my Fuji. So I tested the
> combination as I always do?I took some pictures.
>
> Monica, at close distance and at f2.8:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-KNMF5P7/A
>
> Decoration on the wall of my home office, also at f2.8:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Z384c76/A
>
> A small boat arriving in our harbour:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-PtZLg8z/A
>
> I am pretty pleased with this device. The AF is not as fast as a native
> Fuji lens, but it is serviceable, and the success rate is much higher than
> when I focus these lenses manually on the Fuji.
>
> The adapter is here:
> https://fotodioxpro.com/collections/lens-mount-adapters/products/lm-fxrf-prn
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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> Nathan Wajsman
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