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Re: M8/Leica People I'm Thinking About Switching
wolfloid wrote:
\"for best MF results one must change to a manual focusing screen such as the EG-S screen.\"
I have the EG-S screen, and in low light levels (only fairly low) it is completely useless. In the situations I\'m describing the rangefinder is not only an order of magnitude brighter, which helps in composition, it is also easy to focus. With the EG-S screen and a 40/2 it is almost impossible to focus centrally and just a joke to try to focus off axis. The EG-s screen is only good in good light.
Not my experience. I get good results with wide aperture lenses in low light with Ee-S and Eg-S. I don\'t believe that focus-recompose would give me either the accuracy for sharp eyes at f1.4 or the focussing speed that I need. Two frames-per-second wouldn\'t help either. Here are a few pictures from one event, mostly at isos 6400-12800 with a Contax 35mm f1.4 wide open. An M8 could neither match the speed of off-centre focussing, nor the iso and ability to get adequate results in little to no light, nor the frame rate and method of attrition.
Jun 16, 2009 at 11:27 AM
brainiac Offline [X]
Re: M8/Leica People I'm Thinking About Switching
wolfloid wrote:
\"for best MF results one must change to a manual focusing screen such as the EG-S screen.\"
I have the EG-S screen, and in low light levels (only fairly low) it is completely useless. In the situations I\'m describing the rangefinder is not only an order of magnitude brighter, which helps in composition, it is also easy to focus. With the EG-S screen and a 40/2 it is almost impossible to focus centrally and just a joke to try to focus off axis. The EG-s screen is only good in good light.
Not my experience. I get good results with wide aperture lenses in low light with Ee-S and Eg-S. I don\'t believe that focus-recompose would give me either the accuracy for sharp eyes at f1.4 or the focussing speed that I need. Two frames-per-second wouldn\'t help either. Here are a few pictures from one event, mostly at isos 6400-12800 with a Contax 35mm f1.4 wide open. An M8 could neither match the speed of off-centre focussing, nor the iso and ability to get adequate results in little to no light, nor the frame rate and method of attrition.
Jun 16, 2009 at 11:17 AM
brainiac Offline [X]
Re: M8/Leica People I'm Thinking About Switching
wolfloid wrote:
\"for best MF results one must change to a manual focusing screen such as the EG-S screen.\"
I have the EG-S screen, and in low light levels (only fairly low) it is completely useless. In the situations I\'m describing the rangefinder is not only an order of magnitude brighter, which helps in composition, it is also easy to focus. With the EG-S screen and a 40/2 it is almost impossible to focus centrally and just a joke to try to focus off axis. The EG-s screen is only good in good light.
Not my experience. I get good results with wide aperture lenses in low light with Ee-S and Eg-S. I don\'t believe that focus-recompose would give me either the accuracy for sharp eyes at f1.4 or the focussing speed that I need. Two frames-per-second wouldn\'t help either. Here are a few pictures from one event, mostly at isos 6400-12800 with a Contax 35mm f1.4 wide open. An M8 could neither match the speed of off-centre focussing, nor the iso and ability to get adequate results in little to no light, nor the frame rate and method of attrition.
Jun 16, 2009 at 10:00 AM
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