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Subject: [Leica] The Fuji XPRO-1
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:08:57 -0500
References: <CAOfQYBvdQKzZUZz6TqkhPv=zzZW09NQFvRF0SEjtAT5ALn-Tew@mail.gmail.com>

Good luck with it.  Do remember to pause briefly--about half a breath--after 
the half press to let the AF do it's thing.  It'd be nice to have a focus 
confirm light about where the X-1 has one, wouldn't it?   ...or maybe the 
E-PL1 does?  

Regards, 

Dick



On Jan 05, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Phil Swango wrote:

> Richard Taylor wrote:
>> In my experience with the Panasonic GF-1 and now the GX-1, they are very
> rangefinder-like if you use them that way.  Snap an optical finder into the
> hot shoe, set the camera to >center-point focus only, put the point you
> want to focus on in the middle of the finder, half-press the shutter,
> reframe, push the shutter the rest of the way down.
> 
> I'm coming a little late to this thread but the timing is perfect as I just
> got my new (refurb) Pen E-PL1 today and had a chance to try it out with the
> Leitz 50mm bright-frame optical finder (SBOOI).  It worked really well for
> me using the kit lens set at 50mm equivalent and AF, as Dick described.
> Looking forward to giving it a better workout tomorrow but so far so good.
> 
> -- 
> Phil Swango
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