Okay folks here's a question I'll throw to the floor. I've finally been able to mount a fully manual wide angle lens onto my Fuji X-E1 and I was testing with it this afternoon.
For the curious, this is what the combo looks like: <http://pdml.posthaven.com/fuji-and-wide> BUT if I try and 'zone' focus with it, the background is out of focus. Facts: lens is M39 mount and mates to camera via a M39-to-Fuji X (FX) adaptor. Camera set to Auto so you offer it some light through the lens and it will correctly calculate the exposure. This is flawless. Lens set at (say) f/16, and infinity mark on focus barrel is moved to the f/16 mark so that everything between the two f/16 marks should be in focus according to depth of field. Result: foreground is sharp, everything from about 20 feet away to infinity is soft. However: if I leave the infinity mark at maximum focus (eg lens set to infinity focus), and stop down to (say) f/16, then everything from about 2 feet away to infinity is in sharp focus! Supplementary question: To mount an M39 lens onto an FX body, apparently there are two routes: just by using a M39-FX adaptor. OR by using an M39-Leica M (LM) adaptor AND a LM-FX adaptor as well. Wouldn't the two methods produce differing lens flange - to - sensor plane measurements? I appreciate this question really needs to be addressed to something like the Fuji forum, but thought I would put it past the ,might PDML collective first. Would an incorrect lens flange-to-sensor measurement create the zone- focus issue above? Many thanks -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ Broadcast, Corporate, || (O) | Web Video Production ---------- <www.seeingeye.tv> _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
