philip_pj wrote:
A 3rd group Rich, a large one numerically - those with or happy to use beautiful legacy SLR lenses bought cheap, like Pentax and Canon FD, Contax etc. at all FLs until Zeiss really deliver the goods in native FE next year. A perfect mix and match for many of us.
It\'s good the Leicaphiles one percenters are numerically as few as their volume is large. Mainstream consumers, upshifters from APS-C and m43, cross shifters from DSLR will quickly appreciate the a7/r series.
As expected I found just now that the 21mm Distagon is breathtaking on the 36Mp model, I really don\'t how it avoided the dreaded \'Sony smear\' TM../satire..
..and 1/50s are no problem at all hand held; and the shutter is not mushy or indistinct but works just fine, very nice in fact; and the shutter sound is very reassuring, you adjust to it fast; I saw no 11x jaggies; it\'s very easy to handhold as the adapter provides a good support base for the left hand; the 36mp files open out into .psd files very nicely, say no posterisation. No bad options here.
Anyone know what Lloyd Chambers complaint du jour is today? He has been hard at it, has he exhausted himself already? If so I am disappointed in him. I am enjoying shooting these \'issues\' down right now. Where is Max when you need him...what else - yeah, tonal gradations are very lifelike indeed, but you need more attenton to histo tuning. Files are malleable like the RX1/a99. EVF is even better than RX1, noticably so in fact, very nice in all light tried so far. WB is fussy.
New lens maker sounds great, Jeff. More the merrier.
Philip,
I would really categorize your 3rd group under my second as those lenses are mainly SLR or DSLR lenses.
Rich
Dec 13, 2013 at 09:43 PM
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Where is Max when you need him...what else - yeah, tonal gradations are very lifelike indeed, but you need more attenton to histo tuning. Files are malleable like the RX1/a99. EVF is even better than RX1, noticably so in fact, very nice in all light tried so far. WB is fussy.