Fuji Showcase Leica 40mm Summicron Image Thread

[Lightmancer]

Taken with my X-E1. This is my new favourite lens on this body - small, compact, fast handling and with a 60mm effective focal length this is a good available light lens.

Original:
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Brooklands 1940s Revisited Fuji X-E1 Hangar 5 40mm Summicron by Lightmancer, on Flickr

100% crop:
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Brooklands 1940s Revisited Fuji X-E1 Hangar 5a 100% crop 40mm Summicron by Lightmancer, on Flickr

Original:
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Brooklands 1940s Revisited Fuji X-E1 Hangar 3 40mm Summicron by Lightmancer, on Flickr

100% crop:
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Brooklands 1940s Revisited Fuji X-E1 Hangar 3a 100% crop 40mm Summicron by Lightmancer, on Flickr

 

[taz98spin]

Images look great!!

 

[pniev]

A fantastic combi. My favorite is the first crop (#2).

Question: how do you manage to focus so quickly manually?

Thanks for sharing, Peter

 

[Lightmancer]

Thank you both.

Peter, in answer to your question, I prefocus by feel using the tab on the lens. On the Summicron this puts me at 5' before I start; it's an old habit. Before I then raise the camera to my eye I have pressed the thumbwheel, giving me a magnified view. I may squeeze off a shot in that view if time is of the essence, but usually I press the wheel again, recompose and shoot. I don't find it takes long. I tend to shoot using AE and spotmetering.

 

[ean10775]

I really like the first shot