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90mm lens

does anyone use a 90mm lens on their Leica M - LTM or M mount?

if so can they share their experience of using such a lens
 
BillN_33 said:
90mm lens

does anyone use a 90mm lens on their Leica M - LTM or M mount?

if so can they share their experience of using such a lens
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Hi, I have 3 Leica M mount 90mm lenses (Tele-Elmarit-M, Elmarit-M, Elmar). I have shown pics taken with all of them.

Using a 90mm lens on a Leica without live view like my M9 is not a pure pleasure. Focusing is not easy. I use my 90s not very often.
 
justpix said:
Hi, I have 3 Leica M mount 90mm lenses (Tele-Elmarit-M, Elmarit-M, Elmar). I have shown pics taken with all of them.

Using a 90mm lens on a Leica without live view like my M9 is not a pure pleasure. Focusing is not easy. I use my 90s not very often.
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Thanks Immo

are they Rangefinder coupled? - i.e. focus normally using the RF system
 
justpix said:
Hi, I have 3 Leica M mount 90mm lenses (Tele-Elmarit-M, Elmarit-M, Elmar). I have shown pics taken with all of them.

Using a 90mm lens on a Leica without live view like my M9 is not a pure pleasure. Focusing is not easy. I use my 90s not very often.
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:agree: I have 2 an Elmar-c f4 and an early Elmar f4 but like Immo (@justpix) I rarely use them on my M9 (in fact I almost never take them out with me) I much prefer my 75mm Summarit-m f2.5 (I knoww w Immo has e also). I think 90 is just a bit too long to really use easily on Ms without a Livee View capability.
 
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Thanks guys - I was thinking about a 90mm - but I have the Nikon 105mm f1.4E so I think I'll "chicken out" and use that with my Zf - we, (with my wife), are going on a trip for a few days and I want to try to keep the size/weight down to fit into a small-ish Billingham bag - the Q + the 105mm will fit in the middle section bag although the lens hood does not help, and if I take the 40mm f2 lens off the Zf I can squeeze them plus the FTZ into the small front compartment - I then get AF with the 105mm and the Zf....... with my eye sight, I wear glasses, that will be far more sensible/convenient!!
 
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BillN_33 said:
Thanks guys - I was thinking about a 90mm - but I have the Nikon 105mm f1.4E so I think I'll "chicken out" and use that with my Zf - we, (with my wife), are going on a trip for a few days and I want to try to keep the size/weight down to fit into a small-ish Billingham bag - the Q + the 105mm will fit in the middle section bag although the lens hood does not help, and if I take the 40mm f2 lens off the Zf I can squeeze them plus the FTZ into the small front compartment - I then get AF with the 105mm and the Zf....... with my eye sight, I wear glasses, that will be far more sensible/convenient!!
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Hi, you will have more fun with that combination, I think. - For some time, I have been putting off buying a SONY 1,8/85 lens, the main reason being that this would reduce
my time of short tele lens use even more ... ---
 
justpix said:
Hi, you will have more fun with that combination, I think. - For some time, I have been putting off buying a SONY 1,8/85 lens, the main reason being that this would reduce
my time of short tele lens use even more ... ---
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Thanks Immo, but the downside is that the 105 f1.4E is a big heavy lump which is what I was trying to avoid
 
Q users

I'm finding that in normal use - I'm, well the camera settings, are mostly blowing the highlights with "the white" being difficult to recover

Depending on the light, it's now getting brighter, I've started adding up to 1 stop of under-exposure as detail in "the blacks" are a lot easier to recover

so rather than "expose to the right" - I'm using "expose to the left"

any thoughts?
 
BillN_33 said:
Q users

I'm finding that in normal use - I'm, well the camera settings, are mostly blowing the highlights with "the white" being difficult to recover

Depending on the light, it's now getting brighter, I've started adding up to 1 stop of under-exposure as detail in "the blacks" are a lot easier to recover

so rather than "expose to the right" - I'm using "expose to the left"

any thoughts?
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Metering mode??
 
BillN_33 said:
I have the Metering mode in my favourites, so it's easy to change - so it's sometimes Centre-weighted and sometimes Spot depending on the subject
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Both of those meter over very limited areas, so you are always in danger of blowing the highlights.

On the Q you only other option is Multifield - for general purpose shooting this should retain the highlights better (but you probably knew that!)
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Both of those meter over very limited areas, so you are always in danger of blowing the highlights.

On the Q you only other option is Multifield - for general purpose shooting this should retain the highlights better (but you probably knew that!)
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Thanks, underexposing seem to work for me as there seems to be more detail in the "blacks" than the "whites", using this approach + LR and the ability to Layer,(or Mask as they call it), gets around it. for me anyway

another question - how does that stupid button, (default = frame lines), on the rear just below the speed dial work, I've tried every which way - most of the time I have a problem even pressing it and can I for the life of me get it to lock on focus or F and E ......... a lot easier with the back button focus on my D850

Don't get me wrong - it's a lovely camera
 
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BillN_33 said:
Thanks, underexposing seem to work for me as there seems to be more detail in the "blacks" than the "whites", using this approach + LR and the ability to Layer,(or Mask as they call it), gets around it. for me anyway

another question - how does that stupid button, (default = frame lines), on the rear just below the speed dial work, I've tried every which way - most of the time I have a problem even pressing it and can I for the life of me get it to lock on focus or F and E ......... a lot easier with the back button focus on my D850

Don't get me wrong - it's a lovely camera
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Underexposing means you are losing dynamic range - this may or may not matter to you!

You can set fn button to AFL - I don’t generally use BBF so haven’t set mine!
 
Mr Perceptive said:
Underexposing means you are losing dynamic range - this may or may not matter to you!

You can set fn button to AFL - I don’t generally use BBF so haven’t set mine!
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Thanks again

The Button for AFL and AFL/AEL - seems to be once to register and then once to lock - and then again to unlock

(I take it all back - the button works well once you get used to it, and can remember how to use it)
 
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