Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] New 4/3 equipment?
From: daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:51:53 +0200
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Yep, can't you read? :-)

It was a joke.

Daniel

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, philippe.amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> 
wrote:
>
> Le 26 ao?t 10 ? 10:34, Daniel Ridings a ?crit :
>
>>
>> As you can read, they are adamantly denying all rumours:
>>
>
> Sure?
> http://www.cosina.co.jp/v.html
> ph
>
>
>> http://www.cosina.co.jp/seihin/voigt/v-lens/micro-ft/index.html
>>
>> Probably just as well. I have only looked fleetingly through the
>> viewfinder with manual focus, but it didn't take me long to realize
>> that I am too old to focus that way.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Firstly, I find it curious that CV would "announce" a new lens on a
>>> "Rumors" site.
>>>
>>> But assuming it is true, I am quite sceptical about the utility of this
>>> lens. The point of using it is to shoot at f0.95, obviously. And given my
>>> experience focusing the 90mm Elmarit on the GF-1, I think that the % of
>>> usable images would be below 10%.
>>>
>>> As others have said, most cameras work best as a system with the lenses
>>> designed for it, and my conclusion is that despite the automatic
>>> magnification feature of the GF-1 when focusing manually etc., the GF-1
>>> works best with MFT autofocus lenses.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nathan
>>>
>>> On 26 Aug, 2010, at 2:56 , Ric Carter wrote:
>>>
>>>> that's the reason for the question
>>>>
>>>> i've heard complaints about manual focusing on cameras with electronic
>>>> viewfinders
>>>>
>>>> ric
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It's manual focus.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Ric Carter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> i love the concept of this new lens from cv, but is it possible to
>>>>>> focus the thing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> i have no experience, so not a rhetorical question
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ric
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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