Does anyone here focus with the nub, lobe, nipple?

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I'm going to start practicing to see whether I can focus my 35 biogon with just the nub like a tabbed cron. Has anyone had experience doing this? I find it somewhat difficult at the moment because my finger slips off at the extremes or moving quickly. Is it no use? What is it there for?
 
In the short time that I owned the Zeiss 28/2.8 and the 50/1.5, I didn't use the little protrusion to actually turn the ring, but it was useful to have as a kind of "orientation by feel" marker, so you could actually learn to roughly focus by touch. I.e., X-o'clock is 4 meters.
 
Sort of. It's where I rest my finger on the ring. This is one of the biggest selling points of the Zeiss lenses for me -- and it's inexplicably missing on some.

Finger-grips are why I love my 35/1.4 pre-aspheric, the 35 and 50 Summarits and the 50/2.5 Color-Skopar.

Cheers,

R.
 
I prefer the tabs, they just seem to get the job done better for me, I wonder if I could get a tab attached to my planar some how......
 
Avotius said:
I prefer the tabs, they just seem to get the job done better for me, I wonder if I could get a tab attached to my planar some how......
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I'd love the option as well.
 
I can zone focus by touch using the tab or infinity lock. It's really handy on a 50 but harder to do on my 35. I've never found a nipple on my Leica but I do fondle it and feel affectionate towards it... ;)
 
I use my tabs all the time; I even make my own out of plastic tie-wraps if the lens doesn't have one.
 
seems to me that DAG or someone had spare tabs from the 50 summicron for sale, I wonder if by some way using epoxy or something that it could be fitted to a zeiss lens....
 
The focus rings are so tiny, and tabs are a nice way of knowing where the focus point is set -- wish the 90 had one sometimes.
Cartier-Bresson speaks to me through the tab on my 50 -- wish I understood French better. :(
 
I've never really come to terms with tabs. I'm OK with the one on my 35mm after almost two years now but that's about it. Give me a proper focus ring any day.
 
Well, part of my problem is I've never tried a real leica focus tab before as I only have one lens, a ZM. This gets me thinking "I wonder if I would prefer a tab..." Which I may or may not ultimately.
 
It took me some getting used to when I got my Summicron 35, but now I prefer it and would like to have it on my Summicron 50 too.
 
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