I decided to answer one of this thread's most pressing questions -- "Can the Leica R 28mm f2.8 v2 take pictures of things other than broken tree trunks?"
Step one was to spend a boatload of money on a new-old-stock lens. This lens is from 1993, the 7th copy of the E55 model off the assembly line, and it obviously has never been used before -- just sitting in its box for 21 years.
Step two was as soon as the lens arrived this morning to put it on the A7r and try it out all day!
First test, obviously, is to ensure that the lens can perform it's primary function
Second test is always a cat or a duck.
Next a picture of the boat that delivered the boatload of money.
ebrandon wrote:
I decided to answer one of this thread's most pressing questions -- "Can the Leica R 28mm f2.8 v2 take pictures of things other than broken tree trunks?"
Step one was to spend a boatload of money on a new-old-stock lens. This lens is from 1993, the 7th copy of the E55 model off the assembly line, and it obviously has never been used before -- just sitting in its box for 21 years.
Step two was as soon as the lens arrived this morning to put it on the A7r and try it out all day!
ebrandon wrote:
I decided to answer one of this thread's most pressing questions -- "Can the Leica R 28mm f2.8 v2 take pictures of things other than broken tree trunks?" - I have issue with my lens, I tried to google it but can only find "stuck aperture blades" stories, nothing about "stuck subject"...
Leica Elmarit-R 28mm f/2.8 v2 @ f/11, 1/6s, Sony A7r @ ISO 100, B+W Circular Polarizer 55mm
AGeoJO wrote:
I was on a trip for the last two weeks and I missed tons of great images here.
Early on the second day of the trip, I made a boo boo and my A7r dropped from about 2 feet on a hard floor. The EVF went out right away but the rest of the camera was still working. So, kept on using the camera and at the end of the day, it displayed an error and it stopped working. When I got back to the room I fiddled with it, I removed the lens and I noticed the that shutter got stuck in the closed position. So, I took the battery out and reinserted it, I turned the camera back on and the shutter went back up and the camera worked again. I used the camera on the following day and it worked fine until the end of the day when it displayed the same error. Now, no matter what I did, the shutter remained in the closed position. Since I wanted to travel light, the A7r was the only camera I had with me. This is the first time that I went on a trip without any backup and the last . Oh, well. So, I had to use my wife's P&S camera for the remaining 9 days. Ouch... .
I just shipped it to the repair center in Laredo. We will see how this pans out.
Here are images I took of the interior of the Church of Our Savior of Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia before my A7r succumbed....Show more →
Too bad your A7R is broken.And taking a spare body is always a MUST.Looking at your bright,colorful and spacy pictures of the relatively recently restored Russian churches I imagine how would the ancient Byzantine shrines in Constantinople look like now if the Turkish conquest hadn't taken place.
. Oh, well. So, I had to use my wife's P&S camera for the remaining 9 days. Ouch...