Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I wonder which pieces of premium gear I should sell because its bullish this year as an investment? How about Zeiss for Hasselblad bellies? Or Pre ASPH Leica bellies? One problem I've found with selling a piece of key photo gear I've long used is after I sell it I reach into my camera bag and its gone! I can't use it any more. Its now part of someone else's non liquid net worth. - - from my iRabs. Mark Rabiner http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/ > From: David Keenan <ausdlk at gmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:33:17 -0500 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Third party M to X adapter (to Simon) > >> Have you not considered the possibility that not everyone can afford a >> digital Leica M, but maybe has some lenses still kicking around from >> their film days and would like to make use of them again? Or the fact >> that there are only three lenses currently for the Fuji and not many >> more than that for the Sony NEX? All cameras systems have there >> compromises, but most here would agree that Leica M lenses produce the >> best results in many situations, so why not try to use them on other >> systems? > > Simon -- > > Yes, I have considered this. > > Honestly, Leica glass has appreciated so much in value, you'd be MUCH > better off selling it and putting toward the XP1 and a system of lenses. > > I seriously doubt that anyone on this forum (short of deep pixel-peeping in > non-real world tests) is going to see better (i.e., meaningful) results on > the XP1 with Leica (or any other non-Fuji) lenses. > > But my point really is that manual focusing on the XP1 is a VERY inexact > process. What good are the sharpest lenses (again, of any make) if the > photographer cannot precisely focus? And reasonably quickly? > > My point continues that manual focusing on the XP1 (or Sony NEX, Panasonic, > etc.) is at the very best a fidgety, time-consuming process. > > Again, video doesn't necessarily apply. Nor does if you put on a lens and > leave it set for infinity all the time, a landscape photographer, perhaps. > And, and the guy that hyper-focuses an extreme wide angle and never expects > a subject to be too close or too far away. > > But I seriously doubt that the aforementioned group approaches the > mainstream group who are enjoying their mirrorless camera of choice, in > this case the Fuji XP1. > . > Dave. > > -- > See my 2012 Picture A Week (PAW) Gallery > <http://www.dlkphotography.com/paw>originally begun in 2007. > Please join my photography mailing > list<http://dlkphotography.us2.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=3d9dfbb5b18c481753 > 2a37b90&id=4dd441d8fe> > . > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information