Duane Pandorf
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Hey Armando, you may want to get some feedback from Cristian Sorega at Cristian Sorega Photography as he has shot a bunch with that lens.
Hey Armando, you may want to get some feedback from Cristian Sorega at Cristian Sorega Photography as he has shot a bunch with that lens.
Thanks Duane. I'll shoot him an email. I think Cristian is also a forum member here right? Or maybe it's at GetDPI.
I'll try out other lenses when I get home as well. It may well be that my CV35 had focus shift issues all along, and I just never noticed it on the M9, because I generally downsample those 18 mp files to something more manageable.
That being said, I'm having difficulties manually focusing the CV35/1.4 in both peaking modes, even with the magnify on. And specially with the lens wide open. I haven't been able to nail down focus wide open even on stationary subjects (i.e. books). I wonder if the lens suffers from focus shift when shooting wide open.
I have the CV 35/1.4, which happens to be the favorite M lens (that I have). So I'll be trying it out on the GXR along with the CV 50/1.5, CV21/4 and CV75/2.5. My only red dot lens is the 90 Cron. It's hard to focus on the M9, so I rarely ever use it.
@Mike - Thanks for the pointers Mike. I just ran out of battery. I was using the X100's battery on it, and it wasn't fully charged. I set AF Assist to Fn1, and Magnify to Fn2. For some reason, the Magnify stays on for me even after I take the photo. I can't find a setting where the Magnify shuts off after taking the photo.
To my eyes, peaking mode 1 is not very good. The shimmer doesn't shimmer enough, and it's white. I think the peaking on my old NEX3 worked better. Mode 2 seems to work better than mode 1, but still doesn't seem quite as effective as the NEX's peaking. Maybe Ricoh will issue another firmware making the peaking better.
That being said, I'm having difficulties manually focusing the CV35/1.4 in both peaking modes, even with the magnify on. And specially with the lens wide open. I haven't been able to nail down focus wide open even on stationary subjects (i.e. books). I wonder if the lens suffers from focus shift when shooting wide open.
To my eyes, peaking mode 1 is not very good. The shimmer doesn't shimmer enough, and it's white. I think the peaking on my old NEX3 worked better. Mode 2 seems to work better than mode 1, but still doesn't seem quite as effective as the NEX's peaking. Maybe Ricoh will issue another firmware making the peaking better.
Thanks for all the pointers Cristian. Maybe the 35/1.4 suffer from front focus, hence, needing to move that focus a bit further back? Maybe I need to join in and write to Ricoh as well!
You are welcome, hope you get along better with the Nokton on the GXR.
I am working with Ricoh to add a Q&A and feedback section on my blog for them to monitor and answer directly. It should hopefully make communicating with them easier.