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Subject: [Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R
From: jplaurel at gmail.com (Jim Gmail)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:39:15 -0800
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Aren't there a lot if reported issues with adapted lenses? The Leica M 
primes, at least, seem to perform much better on the M240 than on the A7.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 20, 2014, at 15:38, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Sonny
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> 
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