Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/06/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Don, I agree with you; while I glory in playing with my classic lenses on mirrorless, the fun is pretty much over. I?ve sold off most of my Leitz glass as I just wasn?t using it. Too much trouble getting accurate manual focus. Like Jay, I still have a place for my micro-Nikkor lenses, but it is rarely that I pull them out. Even manual focus using native mount is easier, as the focus aids are readily called up. SonC On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 5:49 AM Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Good glass is always good glass. Jayanand is correct that the native mount > lenses will almost always provide an image that is far easier put on the > sensor. Auto focus at this stage of the tech is almost always more precise > than manually focused unless you do all the usual: tripod, biaxis focusing > rail and point magnification on the view screen. Then there is the current > lens correction routines in native lens to camera connection. > > All that is I certainly enjoy many of my lenses on a mirrorless platform > buy increasingly I get better results using native mount lenses. > > All the best. > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 6:15 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at > leica-users.org> > wrote: > > > Count these as my Friday Flowers. The 100 APO on my new Nikon Z7ii. I > > included an extra large image for when you view it large. > > > > And though these were taken on a tripod, I now have image stabilized R > > glass. > > > > Some fading Bleeding Hearts (past their prime) > > > > Bleeding Hearts-0111-Edit (leica-users.org) > > < > > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/new/Bleeding+Hearts-0111-Edit.jpg.html > > > > > > > Some pansies. > > > > Pansies -0114-Edit- (leica-users.org) > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/new/Pansies+-0114-Edit-.jpg.html> > > > > I don't think it skips a beat even 35 years since it was designed. > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > > > Aram > > > > -- > > Aram Langhans > > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > > & Unemployed photographer > > > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin > himself > > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > -- > Don > don.dory at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com <http://sonc.com/look/> Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA