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Martin,
I can't really touch on those points so will let others comment.
robgo2 wrote:
I'm interested in the manual focus process with the SL. I have read that, with practice, one can do this without resorting to focusing aids, such as peaking and magnification. As one who has been routinely using adapted MF lenses on an A7ii, I find this improbable, but perhaps the very high resolution EVF on the SL actually makes it possible. So I would like to hear from SL users about their own experience with MF.
Rob
I've had very limited use of the SL, which in some respect would disqualify me from commenting here. However, from the brief time I had trying a range of my M lenses spanning 21-90mm, within minutes of use, I was nailing focus very consistently with the 50 Lux ASPH without any focusing aids (magnification or peaking). Naturally, longer, faster lenses are easier to 'eyeball' focus this way due to better separation of the plane of focus. My feeling is 35mm and longer should be pretty doable. 28mm and wider would benefit from magnification at wider apertures because focus is definitely quite critical but depth of field can be deep enough to mask the actual plane of focus. My 'eyeball' focus success with the SL is all at wider apertures and/or wide open. As you stop down, the inevitable problem is depth of field masks the precise placement of the actual plane of focus. I'm not sure how you can really get around this with an EVF camera and manual aperture lenses without resorting to either focusing more wide open and stopping down, or magnification (peaking is pretty useless here, IME). This is where IMO rangefinder focusing has a real advantage - precise focus placement when stopped down but depth of field is not deep enough to allow hyperfocal techniques, especially with wider lenses where any kind of TTL focusing experience is compromised without the ability to magnify the image, whether OVF or EVF. It's a reason I would pick the M10 over the SL. Already with the M240 I often RF focus and EVF compose with UWA lenses but the M10 EVF experience is a lot better than the 240's and getting quite close to many other EVF cameras, if perhaps still slightly too laggy for my preferences.
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