I just retired and will travel through India between August and February next year. My wife says, I should do this as long as I can still walk, and that she can take care of herself anyhow. I'm very much looking forward to this trip.
The great difference or me is the stopdown thing in the Leica...not a problem for macro or tipod shots, but may be a great pain shooting around in the streets...can make you end with a lot with out of focus shots...and it's annoying,at least to me.I use the 90mm pre-APO, and I feel so...
vallejo wrote:
The great difference or me is the stopdown thing in the Leica...not a problem for macro or tipod shots, but may be a great pain shooting around in the streets...can make you end with a lot with out of focus shots...and it's annoying,at least to me.I use the 90mm pre-APO, and I feel so...
I use them on an R8 with DMR. No stopdown problem.
If you have a good focusing screen you can focus with the lens stopped down to f4-5.6 so an autodiaphram isn't so important... expecially if you plan on using the lens at these apertures and below... not saying that it isn't a pain... just that it isn't *always* a pain.
vallejo wrote:
The great difference or me is the stopdown thing in the Leica...not a problem for macro or tipod shots, but may be a great pain shooting around in the streets...can make you end with a lot with out of focus shots...and it's annoying,at least to me.I use the 90mm pre-APO, and I feel so...
mh2000 wrote:
If you have a good focusing screen you can focus with the lens stopped down to f4-5.6 so an autodiaphram isn't so important... expecially if you plan on using the lens at these apertures and below... not saying that it isn't a pain... just that it isn't *always* a pain.
Agreed. The joy of using Leica lenses is the bokeh renderring and sharpness wide-open, especially a 90 Summicron. I installed a Katz Eye focusing screen in my D700 and have been using my MF lenses 80% of the time. I rarely stop down beyong f/5.6 in most instances and if I do, it has become 2nd habit focusing wide open and rapidly stopping down for the shot.
