Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ALL of the out of focus errors with the Fuji were caused by a switch or button or lens collar moving to a different position by itself. The manual focus switch on the front, the aperture ring, the manual/auto focus collar on the lenses, the exposure controls all moved too easily, especially bouncing in the back of a truck or messed with by curious kids. I got so paranoid that I had to check every setting before I took a photo; therefore, I used the Leicas more and more on the trip. Tina On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> wrote: > The focus (or oof) rate is very interesting. > My observation with autofocus has always been that unless I take a long > time making sure the autofocus sensor is exactly where I wish focus to > fall, or I am using a slowish zoom, stopped down, autofocus shots often > disappoint by not quite having focus where I want it. > Is this the possibly why you rejected so many of the Fuji shots, or were > they mainly macro (which almost always have some oof problems IME...). Or > is it just me who hasn't mastered autofocus for anything other than > quicksilver grandchildren! > Frank D > > On 13 Jul, 2014, at 22:25, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > > PESO: > > > > This is the kind of thing you can research when you have LR ;-) > > > > I have finally finished editing all of the photos from Honduras. I took > > 1839 photos in all: 869 with the Fuji, 549 with the M240, and 411 with > the > > MM. > > > > Of those, I deleted 243 that were out of focus: 206 with the Fuji, 23 > with > > the M240, and 14 with the MM. > > > > From the remaining, I gave my highest rating of 4 stars to 103 photos: 33 > > with the Fuji, 22 with the M240, and 48 with the MM. > > > > Of the 7 lenses I used, the ones that did the best were the Leica 35/2.0, > > Leica 50/1.4, and Leica 90/2.0. > > > > What I have concluded is that I love the results I get with the MM. I > will > > be carrying it more often in the future, along with those three lenses. > > > > I'm not giving up on the Fuji, but it certainly did not solve my focusing > > problem and I was encouraged by the number that I did get in focus with > the > > Leicas! Maybe all of that focusing I did with the Auto-refractor helped > ;-) > > > > I hope this is interesting to some. It was invaluable to me. I'll be > > posting some of the 4's next week. > > > > Tina > > -- > > Tina Manley > > http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com > > http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/