Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:34:46 +0200
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As you can read, they are adamantly denying all rumours:

http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/v-lens/micro-ft/index.html

Probably just as well. I have only looked fleetingly through the
viewfinder with manual focus, but it didn't take me long to realize
that I am too old to focus that way.

Daniel


On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
wrote:
> Firstly, I find it curious that CV would "announce" a new lens on a 
> "Rumors" site.
>
> But assuming it is true, I am quite sceptical about the utility of this 
> lens. The point of using it is to shoot at f0.95, obviously. And given my 
> experience focusing the 90mm Elmarit on the GF-1, I think that the % of 
> usable images would be below 10%.
>
> As others have said, most cameras work best as a system with the lenses 
> designed for it, and my conclusion is that despite the automatic 
> magnification feature of the GF-1 when focusing manually etc., the GF-1 
> works best with MFT autofocus lenses.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
> On 26 Aug, 2010, at 2:56 , Ric Carter wrote:
>
>> that's the reason for the question
>>
>> i've heard complaints about manual focusing on cameras with electronic 
>> viewfinders
>>
>> ric
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>>
>>> It's manual focus.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>> i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to 
>>>> focus the thing?
>>>>
>>>> i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question
>>>>
>>>> ric
>>>
>>
>>
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