R adaptor to Digilux 3

[lufan1011]

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I just bought a digilux 3 two weeks ago, now I am thinking to buy an adaptor to re-use my R lenses. My concerns are:

 

1) Because there is no info transmission between R lens and 4/3 camera body, how the processor recognize the aperture setting on the lens?

 

2) If set the aperture to a smaller value, for example f 8 or 11, the viewfinder must be looked very caliginous, is it true? Then it would be difficult to manually focus.

 

Hope can get help from you about the professional comments.

 

Thanks

 

Lu Fan

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[Riley]

you might use aperture priority to shoot

focus manually wide open and stop down

fortunately there is focus confirmation on D3 to assist

[graeme_clarke]

Hello Lufan,

 

Its an easy process. I tried mine for the first time last week. Set the shutter speed dial to A. Open the lens aperture wide and focus. Close the aperture to the setting you want, compose the picture and take the shot. The camera operates in aperture priority mode.

 

Here are 2 shots of the same picture of a Foxglove taken with the R 100mm f2.8 macro, handheld. The second is a crop of the first.

 

Hope this helps,

 

Graeme

[lufan1011]

Thanks Riley and Gaeme, have a nice weekend...