[Leica] OT - Sony Alpha 7R

[john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster)]

Fair enough, but as Bob owns the M+EVF it was a valid question ;-)

john

-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Sonny Carter

John, I think about the M+EVF solution exactly like I saw the visoflex 
solution.

I don't own either.  Never have.  Not even for my little Oly camera.


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:48 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
wrote:

> Do you expect the Sony to be significantly better than M+EVF for 
> focussing? It will be more co-ordinated of course ;-)
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> So has the Fuji X system pretty much been out-wowed by the Sony system?
> Primarily because Sony is FF vs APS-C?
> Just curious. The X-T1 is coming, which looks like a great camera, but 
> Leica users here are trending toward the Sony...
> Just wondering which I should buy next: Seems the Sony for my hard to 
> focus Noctilux and 75/2...
> Keep using the M for WA (35 & 21)
> Thanks for any thoughts,
> Bob
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Feb 22, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Feb 22, 2014, at 8:40 AM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr at gmail.com> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Non native lenses are really easy to focus with the A7r.  There's a 
> >> color indicator that blooms as areas are in focus.  (you can change 
> >> the color of the bloom)
> >
> >
> > one approach is to shoot in RAW and jpeg fine bw and set the focus
> peaking color to red....
> >
> > so you see in bw and the red "bloom" is incredibly sensitive and 
> > easy to
> see, when you are in focus.
> >
> >
> > s
> >