AlexBG
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Excellent choice, if you get on with Sony then you have a lot to choose from for your leica lenses. Hard to beat the lens on the RX1 though.
Any Digital Cameras Stand Out for Manual Focus?
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Excellent choice, if you get on with Sony then you have a lot to choose from for your leica lenses. Hard to beat the lens on the RX1 though.
Dogman
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On seldom occasions I use some older Nikkor manual focus lenses on my current Nikon DSLRs. Truthfully, I can't see for **** anyway so I don't even attempt to use those lenses very often. I go by the focus confirmation indicator in the Nikons and it seems pretty much perfect to me. Not fast, not easy but perfectly fine even using the old 1960s 200/4 lens I have even wide open.
Rayt
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I concur the focus confirmation on Nikons is the easiest way to manual focus. I have a few R lenses converted to N mount for the F6. I can successfully focus the Nikon without bother putting on glasses by just looking at the little indicator arrows.
For M lenses the best of course are any of the M and SL bodies premium or not. The other options with peaking and magnification will work but not as well.
Godfrey
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Anything with a 24x36 mm sensor in it is early '00s technology, outdated by modern 'small' digital-medium-format technology now at prices lower than FF 35mm. A Fuji GFX-R or Hasselblad X1D/907x blows them all away. And I can still use my Leica M and R lenses on them.
Hasselblad 907x + Leica Summicron-M 50mm f/2
LOL!!! :angel:
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Ronald M
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My Nikons are in perfect focus when I start at infinity and the left arrow just comes on. About 6 Nikons all the same. I would not say any particular one is significantly better. None compare to a Leicaflex or even the Nikon F2, not even close.
I would give most anything for a real DSLR manual focus screen. Tried some aftermarket screens and they are only fair.
I would give most anything for a real DSLR manual focus screen. Tried some aftermarket screens and they are only fair.
GulfCoastPhotog
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Olympus Pen
Olympus Pen
Very happy with my Olympus Pen. I use a lot of LTM lens, some Nikon, and others with the correct adapter. Also only use the cheapest plain adapters, never bought one that did not work.
Good luck in your search.
David
Olympus Pen
Very happy with my Olympus Pen. I use a lot of LTM lens, some Nikon, and others with the correct adapter. Also only use the cheapest plain adapters, never bought one that did not work.
Good luck in your search.
David
v3cron
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That's not what I said, and the logic does not follow. I have a use for a digital camera, but it is a limited use due to the limited nature of the medium. That's why I can't see spending that much money on one. I appreciate your input, though.
The green dot *does* work, with limitations.
First, it takes practice to frame, and then move your eye to look at the dot, without messing up the framing.
Second, the dot can be very sensitive. The difference between solid green dot and no dot can be pretty miniscule...it would be really nice to have, say, 5 dots for more accuracy; two dots on either side of the focus point, plus a center dot.
Third, it's easy to confirm the green dot on something other than what you want to focus on. 🙂
Godfrey
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But you see, you disparage the medium without actually having put it to use with a premium camera already.
I haven't found a film yet that can net 14 to 16 stops of useful dynamic range and tonal possibilities. 10-12 maybe, with some films. Film is by its nature a much more limited recording medium, full of constraints: that's part of the charm of it to me. Digital capture with modern, premium grade equipment is far far more capable, although also very very different. I use both for their very different capabilities, pluses AND minuses. It makes a difference in the photographs depending upon what I'm trying to achieve.
Enjoy what you like. I just find the practice of dissing digital capture the way you are doing, subtly, kind of noisome. It's unwarranted and not an objective perspective, limiting.
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v3cron
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I don't want to get into a whole film v digital thing, but the fact that it requires a "premium" $5000+ camera to see what digital is really capable of is a bit eyebrow-raising, especially in 2020. And there are no objective perspectives here, including yours. I phrased my postings to reflect that.
joe bosak
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I used to know these guys who would argue about two flies climbing up a wall.
Scrambler
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What's the big fight over? High end digital vs large format film? Top notch 24x36 cameras for film or digital?
No.
The question was about a low cost interchangable lens digital for travel.
There are a range of features I have invested in for digital travel cameras. The key one is waterproof design: that eliminates interchangable lenses. Or it does if you also go for "not costing a fortune."
I've commented on the elements of the question that I feel I can. But suggesting it's an inadequate approach to digital is hardly useful. An adequate approach will not be a good (cheap, compact) travel camera.
No.
The question was about a low cost interchangable lens digital for travel.
There are a range of features I have invested in for digital travel cameras. The key one is waterproof design: that eliminates interchangable lenses. Or it does if you also go for "not costing a fortune."
I've commented on the elements of the question that I feel I can. But suggesting it's an inadequate approach to digital is hardly useful. An adequate approach will not be a good (cheap, compact) travel camera.
BWF
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Fuji’s are really nice for focus peaking. All the Fuji’s I have had I would say that about - XE3, XT2, and X100s. The higher end Fuji’s have a nicer “fit and finish” if you will but all are awesome. Fuji’s are definitely nicer for MF than my Sony A7iii. Focus peaking on the Sony is just not as easy to use. There are either too many or too few colored focus points (IMHO).
willie_901
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It's good Nikon finally offers a useful MF focus tool with the Z6.
I was so frustrated using MF on their DSRs I abandoned Nikon forever.
willie_901
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For me using Nikon AI/AIS and AF/AF-s lenses in MF mode was a green dot nightmare.
The green dot sensitivity you mention behaved differently for different lenses on the same body. Furthermore, the D200, D300 and D700 I used had very different green dot behaviors.
Godfrey
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I didn't say it did. To me, a $600 digital camera is just as easily a premium product.
I know because I have objectively tested them. And owned, and made a living from them. 🙂
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