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 p.42 #14 · Alt forum Nikon Z resource, discussion and image thread | |
rscheffler wrote:
Thanks Michael. Maybe you've touched on it already in past pages and I missed it (or have forgotten): is your preference to use the 90 on the Leica, despite the inherent difficulties of focusing it with the rangefinder, or do you find you'll also use it on the Z7?
One of the thought processes in my head has been a camera like the Z7 for use with 90mm and longer lenses and 50 and wider on the M where they seem more at home. I use both the 90AA and the Macro. For general stopped down walk around shooting with either 90 I can usually get correct focus. I find the 90AA more of a challenge at wider apertures and non-static people photos....Show more →
Theoretically, as you said, you want use WA on M and long on Z. However, for most of my travel or landscape use, I don't really care use WA on Z or Tele on M, or vise versa. I found most of time, I do stop down anyway, and more than half of time, I don't even need focus but just use barrel for deep DOF images. I almost never shoot WA on Z wide open and 90% of time just use barrel focus. (with knowing how lens behave on body, I carefully evaluate each lens for stop down shooting).
For manual focus, I'd say I personally prefer rangefinder most of time, less stress on eyes and fast. For lens like 90mm, I generally don't have much problem focus, seldom I found I need perfect focus anyway, even if some percentage of images front focus slightly,(I try never back focus images) I don't think it really change anything for me. For real important ones, I can focus bracket. Sure I could use LV/EVF zoom for both M and Z. I never a big fan of shooting that way.
Z's AF is super reliable, as long as you don't select focus box too big to confuse the camera with background. Z with zoom is very practical and simply work but I have to say It doesn't have the same fun factor as using M.
For the case you described: shooting portrait with 90mm wide open, I would say I get about the same keeper rate either use Z7 EVF eye ball the focus or M rangefinder focus. (I can miss focus range from slightly to correct focus, with more time allowed, my keeper rate rising to almost 100% for both as well) I much prefer rangefinder focus though, much less stress on eyes and minds.
For important images like you do as pro, you might have to use 100% view to ensure getting the shot quickly. In that case, A AF lens is a better bet I think especially for MILC that you almost never fail to nail focus. It is much easy to deal under stress condition IMHO. For me, I just enjoy doing it slowly and rely on myself. That is the reason I didn't buy 105E till now even I think it is the best AF portrait lenses I have seen.
I compared 15VC with 14-30, I think 14-30 is actually a sharper lens, but shooting with real focus ring lens is so much more direct and reliable, I just hate to fiddle FBW, especially for hyper focal shooting. All the M wides have to stay. Z might come and go 
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Gary Clennan wrote:
Bravo Michael!
Thank you, Gary, you are always so kind.
70-200 f4
Mount Whitney
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I think this lens didn’t get enough attention as it deserved. It is sharper than both Zeiss planar and 80lux at f1.4 and have very nice (I’d say different) look to the images. I bought it as manual lens actually given Z can’t AF it. It offer focus confirmation and full EXIF support which are all I wanted. The focus confirmation is very accurate. I really wish Z can extend this feature to all manual glasses. It is so useful. 
