Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob Adler and I got together this past week. Bob was good enough to bring down his XE-1 for me to view and answer some questions I had. This was a 15 minute test.. I will get to what I discovered in the camera that I found problematic.. The camera VF is a confusing mess of information. An anti-M3 sort of. Bob said that it should be able to shut off all the visual gadgetry, but we could not find the button(s?) to do so. OK, I will take Bob's word that it is possible... that would take away my comment about the VF info. I was very interested in the MF focus peaking mode. Bob had updated the FW, so the camera was ready to go..we used a 50 ASPH Lux as the lens with a real Fuji adapter. What I discovered is the focus peaking works really well IF you have a fast lens that is set to a wide open iris.. F2 ( or whatever) instead of F8. At F5.6-8, the image DOF is so great the focus peaking seems pretty worthless... The in-focus areas are too great, and the plane of focus ( otherwise called the really in focus plane) is lost. Remember, this is using a non Fuji lens.. In MF mode. The saving grace is that I had no problem focusing on what appears to be the electronic equivalent of a ground glass. even at F8. And as in the "old days" the GG was all over the frame, so you could focus anywhere. Shutter lag seemed short in this setup. Nothing I found an issue. A nice camera.. YMMV Frank Filippone Red735i at verizon.net