Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I doubt that an electronic viewfinder will ever replace my fondness for a Leica M optical rangefinder. I do like the hybrid viewfinder of Fuji, but might not like it as much with an M lens in manual mode. I keep finding myself asking the all important question "What would Lluis use?" Jeffery Sent from my iPad Jeffery L. Smith New Orleans, Louisiana USA On Aug 4, 2013, at 23:18, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> wrote: > Bob Adler and I got together this past week. Bob was good enough to bring > down his XE-1 for me to view and answer some questions I had. > > > > This was a 15 minute test.. I will get to what I discovered in the camera > that I found problematic.. > > > > The camera VF is a confusing mess of information. An anti-M3 sort of. Bob > said that it should be able to shut off all the visual gadgetry, but we > could not find the button(s?) to do so. OK, I will take Bob's word that it > is possible... that would take away my comment about the VF info. > > > > I was very interested in the MF focus peaking mode. Bob had updated the > FW, > so the camera was ready to go..we used a 50 ASPH Lux as the lens with a > real > Fuji adapter. > > > > What I discovered is the focus peaking works really well IF you have a fast > lens that is set to a wide open iris.. F2 ( or whatever) instead of F8. > At > F5.6-8, the image DOF is so great the focus peaking seems pretty > worthless... The in-focus areas are too great, and the plane of focus ( > otherwise called the really in focus plane) is lost. Remember, this is > using a non Fuji lens.. In MF mode. > > > > The saving grace is that I had no problem focusing on what appears to be > the > electronic equivalent of a ground glass. even at F8. And as in the "old > days" the GG was all over the frame, so you could focus anywhere. > > > > Shutter lag seemed short in this setup. Nothing I found an issue. > > > > A nice camera.. YMMV > > > > Frank Filippone > > Red735i at verizon.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information