[Leica] My Experience with the X Pro-1 and Leica Lenses

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Robert Adler)]

Richard,
Great info. Thank you!


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Richard Taylor <r.s.taylor at 
comcast.net>wrote:

> Hello again.  It's been quite a while since I posted, but I've been
> following the recent discussion about the X Pro-1 and XE-1 with great
> interest and thought you might be interested in my experience with my 28
> Summicron on the camera.  I use the Fuji adapter.
>
> I've had an X Pro-1 since it first came out.  I am delighted with it and
> with the Fuji 35mm and 18mm lenses I usually use on it.
>
> As the recent postings have said, using Leica lenses on the camera is only
> a bit more hassle than using them on an M.  In the OVF with the camera set
> to manual focus a quick press of the thumb wheel brings up a magnified EVF
> image in the finder, focus, half press the shutter to bring the OVF back,
> and shoot.  Great, and pretty quick.
>
> Unfortunately, in bright light--read that an anywhere outdoors on a sunny
> day--the OFV frame lines are so dim as to be invisible.  Why this is so is
> beyond me since the frame lines are perfectly visible in bright light with
> the Fuji lenses mounted.*  This looks like a bug to me and maybe a firmware
> update will fix it.
>
> The EVF is fine outdoors, fortunately, but you have to lock the EVF on
> since there is enough of a light leak around your head when the light is
> bright to keep the sensor on the back of the camera from triggering the
> automatic switch to the EVF and to prevent the manual switch from working.
>
> The shooting process is the same as with the OVF and just a quick.  I find
> I need to shoot with both eyes open, though, since the EVF is pretty dim in
> bright light.  It serves primarily as a focusing and framing device.  The
> XE-1 may be better in this regard.  My one look through one of those
> viewfinders made me think I was looking though a piece of glass.
>
> On file size, I was initially getting very large (55MB) image files after
> import into Lightroom 4 even though I wasn't embedding the RAF files.  You
> can bring the file sizes down to normal--about 25MB RAF; 19MB DNG--by
> selecting Compatibility "ACR 7.1 and Later" in the preferences dialog box
> for imports into LR4.  I got this fix from a Fuji X forum.  This usually
> limits you to using CS6 and LR 4.1 and higher but that's not a problem for
> me, anyway.
>
> Image quality with the 28 Summicron looks pretty good but I haven't really
> looked at it in detail yet.  This lens will be my 40mm equivalent lens at
> least until Fuji finally releases its 35mm equivalent.
>
> The X Pro-1 is my current Leica substitute.  It's great camera, use it
> with joy!
>
> Dick
>
> *There is one exception to this.  I situations where there is bright light
> and the light is highly polarized, such as light off the water, the frame
> lines will be invisible with the camera held horizontally.  Rotate it to
> vertical and the frame lines reappear.
>
> If you're wearing polarizing sunglasses the frame lines will be invisible
> in all situations and the EVF will be black and unusable.
>
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Bob Adler