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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Otus 55mm f1.4
From: msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 08:18:45 -0800
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doug, u use manual focus gear that's different that use af gear to use with
manual focusing gear that was franks point

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  regards, mehrdad


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at 
earthlink.net>wrote:

> George Lottermoser wrote:
>
> >
> >On Nov 19, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Doug Herr wrote:
> >
> >> MF or AF? (no enlarged EVF)
> >>
> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/btha04crop.jpg
> >>
> >> uncropped:
> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/mammals/leporidae/bthare04.html
> >>
> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/wfib01crop1.jpg
> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/wfib01crop2.jpg
> >>
> >> the image as shown on my website is about 1/3 of the image area
> >> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/threskiornithidae/wfib01.html
> >>
> >> I have many more that illustrate the point but I don't have cropped
> images handy.  For TTL manual focus a sharp lens and a good viewfinder with
> proper diopter correction
> >
> >
> >
> >> make a big difference.
> >
> >though only in the  highly developed, skilled hands of a consummate
> craftsman.
> >which speaks to Steve's point
> >just as you speak to the gear point.
> >
> >It all has to come together:
> >subject
> >content
> >tools
> >artist/craftsperson
> >
>
> Agreed... what I was primarily responding to was Frank Filippone's
> assertion that "AF is the solution" which clearly is not universally true.
>  For many people in the circumstances they ordinarily encounter it's a good
> solution, for others it's not.  I'd be delighted if people avoided these
> absolute pronouncements because more often than not, YMMV.
> What I was respo
>
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>
>
>
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