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Subject: [Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:38:42 -0600
References: <CF2BB9E0.185C5%mark@rabinergroup.com> <5321466E-C881-40C2-AB08-4C66A30B3654@gmail.com>

Except that it will fit nearly every 35mm lens in the book, LTM, M, and R,
as well as the native ones.  and the 35 2.8 T* is not too big, larger than
a sumicron.

The 55 and 35 may not be crazy interesting, but taken as a package with the
camera, they are pretty sweet.


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Jim Laurel (gmail) <jplaurel at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> I wish someone could explain all the hype around the Sony A7 twins. Ok, I
> get that it's a full frame mirrorless and that puts it in an exclusive club
> with just two members, alongside the M240. I understand everyone's desire
> for a full frame platform for mounting legacy glass. But as a system in its
> own right, I don't get it. Sure, the body is small, but so what? Lenses
> that produce an image circle suitable for a full frame sensor are going to
> be just as large as, say, the Canon system. At the end of the day, your bag
> is going to weigh nearly as much as any other full frame system. You're
> only saving a ounces on the body. And that assumes that there are
> interesting native mount lenses for the A7, which there aren't...not yet,
> anyway...
>
> --Jim
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2014, at 10:55 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
> wrote:
>
> > I came into the photo game after they put in the click stops so I hadn't
> > done much shooting at f 2.7 or f9 or 101st of a second.!
> > Things were pretty much rounded off for me! I'd have a had a hard time
> > getting my head around  f9. Did it exist?
> > When the A & P  settings got put in camera bodies  in I think the early
> 80's
> > I did use these and any odd settings as that's what the A settings on my
> > cameras gave me.  Though you could not see it in any metadata you could
> > remember they were there!!
> > In a way of thinking it was an added level of precision which I thought
> was
> > pretty cool! Of a sky needed 101st of a second that's what it got!
> > Not some measly 100th just so the thing would go click!
> >
> > Is a one percent level of precision something I should NOT be worried
> about?
> > Sure! But I'll take it if they're handing it to me.  And all those 1%
> levels
> > of precision on the myriad areas of camerawork add up I should think.
> >
> > The major thing about auto settings is really about loosing less shots as
> > you've got your eye more on the subject than needle or led's or controll
> > knobs. Your not constantly trying to maintain your exposure you just know
> > its there!
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark William Rabiner
> > Photographer
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >
> >
> >
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Sonny
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USA


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