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 Re: Leica M8/M9/X1 Picture Thread | |
vovkinson wrote:
rscheffler,
how many times per year do you have to send the lens and camera for calibration?
This really scares me. I recently bought M9 (used) plus 2 lenses (apparently not very popular in this threat) Summicron 50 2.0 & 35 2.0 ASPH and so far I\'m not noticing any back/front focusing issues.
OR maybe I have to look closer ?
This is the third time since I bought it used at the end of 2010. The first problems was it wouldn\'t keep accurate time and Leica replaced the internal battery under warranty. The reason it\'s in for servicing now is because a couple months ago I had it calibrated with a 50 Lux and they appear to have calibrated the camera to the lens, rather than the other way around, because the camera worked fine with my other Leica lens at the time, as well as many of my Zeiss and Voigtlander lenses. After the calibration, the M9 & 50 were perfect until about 10m, where it began to front focus, and with all other lenses it back focused a fair amount.
I think if you decide to go for faster lenses, like the f/1.4s, that\'s where you really see minor focusing issues and where perfect calibration is required. Prior to adding the 50, 21 Lux and CV35 f/1.2 I generally found the M9\'s focusing to be pretty forgiving.
Hi Joe: The GXR isn\'t bad. I\'m not totally in love with it primarily because of the roughly one second delay immediately after each image where it writes to the buffer. If I think I need some spontaneity, I will set it to continuous advance and shoot off 4 frames (the max before the buffer fills), but one annoying quirk is that when you turn off the GXR, it reverts to single frame advance... I\'m also missing the M9\'s analog shutter speed control. Having used a Canon 1 series camera since the early 90s and all the way until the M9 in 2010, I never thought I\'d say this... but it\'s really convenient to be able to change the shutter speed just by looking at the dial, rather than having to look through the EVF or on the LCD display. I find the M9 super easy to use in manual exposure mode... the GXR less so. I also see a fair difference between APS-C and FF. The GXR files, while plenty sharp, just don\'t seem to have the same level of detail, which might partly be due to it being 12MP, which also limits cropping. What I do love about it is the size and the silent shutter mode - it\'s simply awesome to have that option. I just wish the shutter release had better feedback to let you know when you\'ve actually pushed it all the way for an exposure - it\'s too spongy IMO.
I\'ve posted some photos in the GXR and Voigtlander threads....
Great set Dan!
Congrats Ash, great set too, jealous about the weather 
dgenx24, love the feel of #2
Nice Charles - looking forward to the surfer photos
Good catch Joakim.
BTW, I was at the Leica Store in Munich on Friday and asked about their stock... I was interested in looking at the 21 SEM, but they didn\'t have it... But they do have the WATE, 24 Elmar (2 copies), 28 Cron, 28 Elmarit (2 copies), 35 Cron (2 copies), 50 Cron and 75 Summarit (2 copies). They have a website and will ship internationally... at the moment, the pre-VAT Euro prices are quite attractive... and Leica\'s prices didn\'t go up here in the EU like they did in the USA/Canada, making prices here even more attractive... tempted by the 28 Cron... but in a strange way, even more by the WATE...
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