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Fun with Leica R glass on m4/3

jonoslack

jonoslack

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This thread was Barts idea. It was such a good one that I've stolen it from him!

Usung leica R glass on m4/3 seems to be very rewarding. There's lots of it about, and some of it is quite sensibly priced.
I'm double posting some shots I took yesterday with the 60mm e55 f2.8 macro elmarit.










Over to you Bart! And everyone else

All the best
 
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Terry

Terry

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I caved... I had a lonely unused R adapter from a 180 that I had sold...so I wanted to make the adapter happy again and a 60 macro arrived on Friday. However, I'm away with only the Fuji for the weekend.
 
Knorp

Knorp

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jonoslack said:
This thread was Barts idea. It was such a good one that I've stolen it from him!

Usung leica R glass on m4/3 seems to be very rewarding. There's lots of it about, and some of it is quite sensibly priced.
I'm double posting some shots I took yesterday with the 60mm e55 f2.8 macro elmarit.

Over to you Bart! And everyone else

All the best
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Well let's keep to it that I lend you the idea, after all it was your thread !
Anyhow, I'm happy you picked it up :thumbup:
Am I eager to see how the one without the grip holds its ground against the one with the free grip !
:D

Here are some from my first outing with the 70-180/2.8







Kind regards.
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

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Knorp said:
Well let's keep to it that I lend you the idea, after all it was your thread !
Anyhow, I'm happy you picked it up :thumbup:
Am I eager to see how the one without the grip holds its ground against the one with the free grip !
:D

Here are some from my first outing with the 70-180/2.8
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HI Bart
These are fantastic - excellent - RedDot have one of these lenses . . . but at £2600 I'm going to give it a miss!

As for the free grip - I'm surprised to say that I'm using it - mostly just the first part, but it works really well.

I was taking surfing shots today with the 100-300 (I'll put some on the other thread later). The grip really helps.

Terry - good luck with yours

all the best
 
Knorp

Knorp

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Terry said:
Bart these look great. Detail looks superb. What else do you have in your R stash?
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Hello Terry,
actually not much and I dearly hope to keep it that way !
Along with 70-180/2.8, there is the 28-90/2.8-4.5, the lovely macro 100/2.8 and the weird 70-210/4.0.
Not much on the wide site, though.
Hopefully not in vain I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this year's Photokina.
Leica should fulfill their promise one day, right ?

Kind regards.
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

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Here's three more with the macro elmarit 60 (I'm in Cornwall right now, and it's the only R lens I have with me).

These two are of Osmunda regales (the royal fern) in a clay pit near the house here:





This is just a humble plantain

 
jonoslack

jonoslack

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Knorp said:
Hello Terry,
actually not much and I dearly hope to keep it that way !
Along with 70-180/2.8, there is the 28-90/2.8-4.5, the lovely macro 100/2.8 and the weird 70-210/4.0.
Not much on the wide site, though.
Hopefully not in vain I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this year's Photokina.
Leica should fulfill their promise one day, right ?

Kind regards.
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HI Bart
I'm not doing any wide R lenses either - clearly they aren't worth it on m4/3 where there are plenty of reasonable wide lenses - anyway, you need ultra wide R lenses to be any use on m4/3 - even the famous 19mm would only be a boring 38mm.
It's the telephotos that seem much more interesting. I've got the weird 70-210 f3 as well, but I haven't got around to changing the mount back from alpha yet (must do it!).

all the best
 
Knorp

Knorp

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jonoslack said:
HI Bart
I'm not doing any wide R lenses either - clearly they aren't worth it on m4/3 where there are plenty of reasonable wide lenses - anyway, you need ultra wide R lenses to be any use on m4/3 - even the famous 19mm would only be a boring 38mm.
It's the telephotos that seem much more interesting. I've got the weird 70-210 f3 as well, but I haven't got around to changing the mount back from alpha yet (must do it!).

all the best
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Well, the 70-210 weirdo is certainly much more manageable than the 70-180/2.8 behemoth.

Kind regards.
 
Knorp

Knorp

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Went out early this morning, but with little luck getting good shots.
Perhaps my eyesight is slowly letting me down or I've to get used to the 70-180 with 2x t/c.





All the best.
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

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Knorp said:
Went out early this morning, but with little luck getting good shots.
Perhaps my eyesight is slowly letting me down or I've to get used to the 70-180 with 2x t/c.





All the best.
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Bah - these are fantastic Bart - I love them.
 
Knorp

Knorp

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More luck I had with this family of oystercatchers. Quick as water the chicks were more than a match for my focusing skills :eek:







All the best.
 
jonoslack

jonoslack

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I'm keeping to static subjects - well, mostly!
Here are a few from a cloudy walk today:

















All with the 60 elmarit on the OMD. What Fun!
 
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