giidii Posted May 12, 2014 Share Posted May 12, 2014 <p>Someone ever tried the Tri-Elmar f4/35-50-28mm (at the time, it was my favorite on M6) on a MFT camera? it was not conceived as a macro- nor zoom-lens but works brilliantly as such ... surprise - at focus position about the middle between 50 and 28mm, see results: <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/109835740008203764793/20140412MFTLeicaMAdapterTriElmarBetween5028mmFocusMacroTestNoBellowsNoDistanceRings">link</a></p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Very cool. Now that the M has live view, I wonder if it would give good performance between the nominated focal lengths. According to this guest review on Steve Huff's site by Ashwin Rao: "Many have questions as to whether the MATE’s design is a true continuous zoom. Erwin Puts has stated that the MATE is in fact a true optical zoom lens." http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/2010/11 /11/the-leica-mate-lens-review- medium-angle-tri-elmar-by-ashwin-rao/ Perhaps this lens was always redundant. IOW, according to some people's tastes, it replaces only two focal lengths, not three. When you have 28mm and 50mm, do you need 35mm? Some say yes, some say no. Either way, I wouldn't mind giving this lens a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giidii Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 <p>your link doesn't work due to the spaces; this leads to the same page (with different title):<br> <a href="http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/tag/tri-elmar/">http://www.stevehuffphoto.com/tag/tri-elmar</a><br> I did my tests with a E55 MATE. it is not a zoom since the focus isn't continous. turning from 50 to 28mm, close to 28mm it suddenly snaps into 28mm and the macro-mode is gone.<br> The easiest, fastest, reliable way to get good results in shooting macro with TriElmar is to set aperture priority mode, ISO to 320 if sunny, distance to 1m, f/4 to provide for precise focus through electronic view finder while turning focal length between 50mm and 28mm, shoot (great bokeh), optionally stop down aperture for more DoF, shoot again.<br> (For someone like me who worked a lot with Visoflex, it is puzzling that the VF doesnt dimm down when closing the aperture.)<br> works great on any MFT-cam. with right eye on VF, the left eye sees the f-stops. I shot all photos in the album without tripod. you only need a EVF, MFT/LM-adapter (I use panasonic/lumix). should also work with Leica M240. only a little bit more expensive than a PEN. ;)<br> > When you have 28mm and 50mm, do you need 35mm?<br> from my experience, yes. and even or more so with MFT' crop factor 2. used both in the album's sheep photos.<br> *<br> I also tried (without Visoflex!) Leitz Bellows ii with Elmar 3.5/65mm [and extension tube] on MFT with VF-4. great results. but heavy and less suitable since when bellows moves to get the object closer, one needs to move the position of the camera too to get focus back. (this problem is not related to MFT)</p> <div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giidii Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 <p>e-p3 and tri-elmar can also be used in combination with lm-lm adapter to get even more close-up</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giidii Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 <p>photo of e-p3 & lens as used in first post</p><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giidii Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 <p>since I can't figure out an easy way how to post several photos inline, I'm adding some more example photos in album linked in first post of this thread.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giidii Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 <table > <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/109835740008203764793/20140512MFTLeicaMAdapterTriElmarBetween5028mmFocusMacroTestNoBellowsNoDistanceRings?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-3J5t0WJzChw/U3FP7whoRiE/AAAAAAAA37s/aHEfyAsvgys/s160-c/20140512MFTLeicaMAdapterTriElmarBetween5028mmFocusMacroTestNoBellowsNoDistanceRings.jpg" alt="" width="160" height="160" /></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td ><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/109835740008203764793/20140512MFTLeicaMAdapterTriElmarBetween5028mmFocusMacroTestNoBellowsNoDistanceRings?authuser=0&feat=embedwebsite">20140512 MFT-LeicaM adapter-TriElmar between 50-28mm focus macro test (no bellows no distance rings)</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table><div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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