Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] Focus Peaking on the Fuji XT1 with met Metabones adapter
From: tmanley at gmail.com (Tina Manley)
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 17:03:58 -0400
References: <mailman.6031.1427249502.1819.lug@leica-users.org> <32A415E7-0D37-4CC2-BD4A-DE5789DC5E70@netvigator.com> <E3CD3376-4A55-415A-AE6B-437F7F4AA087@frozenlight.eu>

I have tried and tried to figure it out.  I followed the directions in the
manual for the M240 and I can't see any red at all.  I have no idea what
I'm doing wrong.

Tina

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Very nice and sharp. I am still trying to figure out whether focus peaking
> is relevant to my style of shooting (a fancy way of saying that I am still
> trying to figure out how to use it).
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> > On 26 Mar 2015, at 09:12, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:
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> > HI Luggers,
> > At Shogun Camera, Lock Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, owner Denny Cheung sold me a
> Nikon F to Fuji X Metabones adapter.
> > This will let me use my few remaining Leica R lenses already
> re-bayoneted to Nikon F mounts on my Fuji X cameras.
> > I tried a 50mm Nikkor f1.4 on the adapter with the XT 1. I switched the
> focus mode to manual and, imagine my surprised delight,
> > when I held the camera up to focus and lifted my finger off the shutter
> button - focus peaking was engaged - and it
> > made achieving sharp focus a snap!!
> >
> > Here?s Denny, perfectly in focus, and in B&W as processed in CS6
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/DennyCheungShogun.jpg.html
> >
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> > And here?s Denny?s young assistant - the photo processed the same way.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2015/VictorShogun.jpg.html
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> >
> > Please look large - C&C always welcome.
> >
> > Howard
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Replies: Reply from john at mcmaster.co.nz (John McMaster) ([Leica] Focus Peaking on the Fuji XT1 with met Metabones adapter)
In reply to: Message from cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer) ([Leica] Focus Peaking on the Fuji XT1 with met Metabones adapter)
Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Focus Peaking on the Fuji XT1 with met Metabones adapter)