Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/08/04

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Subject: [Leica] Quick look at the Fuji XE-1
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 22:20:15 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Steve Barbour wrote:

>
>On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:18 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at verizon.net> 
>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
> focussing is made easier when focussing is difficult, when aperture is wide
> open..... 
>
> when the lens is already focussed, then of course focussing changes are 
> less
> clear cut....
>

This is exactly why giving up the auto-diaphragm of my R lenses is a 
deal-killer.  YMMV.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com