Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/22

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Subject: [Leica] Fujifilm X Pro 1 M adapter?
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:25:56 -0400
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Steve - I had one for a couple of days and sent it back.  I found that 
focusing was a slow process and that image quality at the corners was pretty 
bad with my 28 and 35 mm Summicrons at even f5.6 and f8.  The corners had 
the characteristic smear of a sensor without microlenses.  The smearing 
might reduce with longer focal length lenses, though. 

Also, you really can't use the optical finder with the manual focus lenses 
because of parallax, though the proper frame lines are there.   

The Fuji lenses are so good and easy to use on the camera I saw no reason to 
put up with the awkwardness of using the Leica lenses.

The Ricoh A12 module is probably a better choice for Leica lenses though I 
haven't tried it.  I understand it has both microlenses and focus peaking 
and is also APS-C.    

Regards, 

Dick



On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Steve Barbour wrote:

> anyone try the M adapter for Leica M lenses, results, reactions?
> 
> 
> easy to focus?
> sensible?
> good results?
> how do the M lens photos look ?
> 
> please let's see your photos....
> 
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
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