Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I see. I had similar problems when I first got mine. I took it to a wedding and was not at all familiar with it. when I picked it up it was in manual focus. I searched high and low in menus to change it. I found there was a switch on the front when I got home. Mind you I find having a switch on the front about 5 billion times more convenient than being in a menu now I know it is there. Now I am used to it the control I still inadvertently turn is the exposure "correction" Frank D >________________________________ > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Sent: Monday, 14 July 2014, 19:00 >Subject: Re: [Leica] Statistics > > >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/ > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >