douglasf13 wrote: naturephoto1 wrote: douglasf13 wrote:
FWIW, the AF on my RX1 is great. While not blazing fast, it is faster than I am at manually focusing, and it is very accurate. To be honest, I rarely bother with manually focusing anymore. I guess if I used a tripod with the RX1, I\'d use it from time to time, but that hasn\'t come up, yet.
If I were buying the A7/R and shooting landscape type stuff, I\'d definitely look into the FE 35.
Douglas,
I will consider it.
Rich
Doesn\'t the 40/2 only focus to .8m? How close can you get with a Hawk\'s helicoid?
Edit: sorry, I was replying to your comment about mfd, which has been removed.
Douglas,
Sorry about the revision. I removed focusing distance of 1.15\' (35 cm) after thinking about it in regards to my Leica R lenses. That is approaching how close some of Leica R lenses focus. The 35mm R Summicron focuses to less than 12\", possibly 10\" or so.
The minimum marked focus on the 40mm f2 lens is a bit less than 0.8. Not having the camera I can\'t say how close I can focus with the Hawk\'s helicoid. In the Hawk\'s ebay ad he indicates that he can focus the 35mm f1.4 Summilux with minimum focus distance of 1m he could was able to focus at 0.28m.
So the 40mm f2 lens with the Hawk\'s Helicoid may focus a little closer than the FE 35mm f2.8 lens.
douglasf13 wrote: naturephoto1 wrote: douglasf13 wrote:
FWIW, the AF on my RX1 is great. While not blazing fast, it is faster than I am at manually focusing, and it is very accurate. To be honest, I rarely bother with manually focusing anymore. I guess if I used a tripod with the RX1, I\'d use it from time to time, but that hasn\'t come up, yet.
If I were buying the A7/R and shooting landscape type stuff, I\'d definitely look into the FE 35.
Douglas,
I will consider it.
Rich
Doesn\'t the 40/2 only focus to .8m? How close can you get with a Hawk\'s helicoid?
Edit: sorry, I was replying to your comment about mfd, which has been removed.
Douglas,
Sorry about the revision. I removed focusing distance of 1.15\' (35 cm) after thinking about it in regards to my Leica R lenses. That approaching how close some of Leica R lenses focus. The 35mm R Summicron focuses to less than 12\", possibly 10\" or so.
The minimum marked focus on the 40mm f2 lens is a bit less than 0.8. Not having the camera I can\'t say how close I can focus with the Hawk\'s helicoid. In the Hawk\'s ebay ad he indicates that he can focus the 35mm f1.4 Summilux with minimum focus distance of 1m he could was able to focus at 0.28m.
So the 40mm f2 lens with the Hawk\'s Helicoid may focus a little closer than the FE 35mm f2.8 lens.
douglasf13 wrote: naturephoto1 wrote: douglasf13 wrote:
FWIW, the AF on my RX1 is great. While not blazing fast, it is faster than I am at manually focusing, and it is very accurate. To be honest, I rarely bother with manually focusing anymore. I guess if I used a tripod with the RX1, I\'d use it from time to time, but that hasn\'t come up, yet.
If I were buying the A7/R and shooting landscape type stuff, I\'d definitely look into the FE 35.
Douglas,
I will consider it.
Rich
Doesn\'t the 40/2 only focus to .8m? How close can you get with a Hawk\'s helicoid?
Edit: sorry, I was replying to your comment about mfd, which has been removed.
Douglas,
Sorry about the revision. I removed focusing distance of 1.15\' (35 cm) after thinking about it in regards to my Leica R lenses. That is close to the Leica R minimum focus distance.
The minimum marked focus on the 40mm f2 lens is a bit less than 0.8. Not having the camera I can\'t say how close I can focus with the Hawk\'s helicoid. In the Hawk\'s ebay ad he indicates that he can focus the 35mm f1.4 Summilux with minimum focus distance of 1m he could was able to focus at 0.28m.
So the 40mm f2 lens with the Hawk\'s Helicoid may focus a little closer than the FE 35mm f2.8 lens.
Rich
Nov 05, 2013 at 11:07 AM
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