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

[kipkeston]

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?

 

[sleepyhead]

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.

 

[Roger Hicks]

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.

 

[pdx138]

I forget that it is even there. I like tabs...

 

[back alley]

i use it for fine tuning the focus sometimes.
i like it.

 

[Avotius]

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......

 

[kipkeston]

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......

I'd love the option as well.

 

[sirius]

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... 😉

 

[Bill58]

I use my tabs all the time; I even make my own out of plastic tie-wraps if the lens doesn't have one.

 

[Avotius]

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....

 

[sepiareverb]

I use the one on my 35/2 ASPH, but the Zeisse ones I don't seem to even notice.

 

[Graham Line]

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. 🙁

 

[peter_n]

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.

 

[kipkeston]

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.

 

[marke]

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.