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These are all issues of technique and experience. After 40+ years of using Ms I still say they are in your control. I do both macro and 200mm with my M9 (and Visoflex - which is true "live view"). You deal with focus shift by compensating the image overlap - not blindly accepting the coincident point.

 

Technique (workarounds) and experience allow a better guessing, a higher rate of success in the trial and error process.

 

I find the focus shift problems annoying. I fail many shots, after years of experience. The focus mechanism is of no help. I focus blind.

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AF is like those annoying flappy paddle gearboxes .....

 

They have got better and better but I want to nail the heal and toe, I want to push the gear lever and release the clutch, and the throttle timing.

 

Even if the flappy paddle gets it right more often than me. When I nail it add a little more aggression with the stab of the throttle, just beat the syncros and get a dab of flame out the back because I have purposely overfuelled at high rpm low throttle settings I am happy ;)

 

Anyone feel the need to twist the lens ?!

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It is just a matter of refraining from buying focus shifting lenses (none of my 30+ Leica lenses suffer from that) and from asking rangefinders to be accurate out of their accuracy range that's all. I don't plan to use the possible EVF of the possible M10 for anything else than macro and telephoto personally.

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I think it is not an M10. Rather it is the new autofocus, external EVF camera made to look like an M to confuse the crowd. The entire top part of the camera with a rangefinder mock-up seems to be a camouflage, probably to hide a pop-up flash, maybe. The compact lens seems interesting.

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It is just a matter of refraining from buying focus shifting lenses (none of my 30+ Leica lenses suffer from that) and from asking rangefinders to be accurate out of their accuracy range that's all. I don't plan to use the possible EVF of the possible M10 for anything else than macro and telephoto personally.

 

Leica never included a public warning about that "characteristic" in several of their lenses, including the 35mm Summilux ASPH.

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No current Leica lens is significantly affected by focus shift AFAIK but i may be wrong. Previous ones were made for film and did not pose any problem then. BTW i forgot to say that i have one lens with focus shift, my dear old Summicron 35/2 v4 that i bought in the eighties. Pity i cannot sue Leica because of time bar! :D;)

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No current Leica lens is significantly affected by focus shift AFAIK but i may be wrong. Previous ones were made for film and did not pose any problem then. BTW i forgot to say that i have one lens with focus shift, my dear old Summicron 35/2 v4 that i bought in the eighties. Pity i cannot sue Leica because of time bar! :D;)

 

What's interesting is that I have a Lux 35 asph v1, which is supposedly a victim of focus shift. I know these lenses all must have it--but I have not noticed this problem once in use during the lens' first four months in my possession. Not once--and I have shot at the normally problematic focal lengths (i.e., 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6). Hmmmm ...

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