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Subject: [Leica] Leica M lenses on Fuji X Pro 1 via official Fuji adapter
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:06:32 +0200
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They are nice indeed, Howard. But what I would really like to see is how 
precise the focus is--for example, a photo with the 90mm focused on a 
subject 2-3 metres away.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA



On Aug 5, 2012, at 7:41 PM, H&E Cummer wrote:

> Hello Luggers,
> I finally got the official Fuji M > X adapter and have been testing out my 
> M lenses on the X Pro 1.
> Some of you may recall that I earlier had an adapter from China which 
> would not allow infinity focusing of my M lenses.
> That is not a problem with the fuji adapter although it has its own 
> idiosyncracies. I have put three pictures in a
> separate folder here:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/LeicaFuji/
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/bvo4d7n
> 
> The first picture is taken with the 18 Elmar on the X Pro 1.
> It is the interior of the car deck of the Queen of Nanaimo as we are 
> driving our car on to the ferry.
> Taken through the windshield. Some users report on the internet blurry 
> corners with the X Pro 1 using
> some Leica wide angles but I didn't see evidence of that in my playing 
> around.
> 
> The second picture is a whale watching boat off Galiano Island taken with 
> the 90 Elmarit on the
> X Pro 1. Mount Baker, about 140 miles away is in the upper right of the 
> picture. You can also see
> the pollution caused by ships travelling in the channel - the brown smear 
> to the left of Mount Baker.
> 
> The third picture was taken at the Zen Cafe on Yew Street on Friday 
> morning when I joined Tom
> Abrahamsson and the camera guys for breakfast. It was taken with the 18 
> Elmar on the fuji.
> 
> The X Pro 1 wants to default to 1/30 with the adapter on so you need to 
> set the auto ISO to 3200
> and use a manual shutter speed. I used 1/500 for the most part and f8.0 on 
> the lenses and let the iSO
> run where it wanted to go.
> 
> I did some comparison shots with the M8 and the same lenses and found the 
> M8 records in a warmer
> tone that the X Pro 1. 
> 
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
> 
> Cheers
> Howard (back on Pender and enjoying the heat - it was 30 degrees 
> centigrade yesterday - which was nearly a record for the cool Gulf Islands)
> 
> 
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