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Can't Get Focus Peaking to work on M-P 240 with R lenses


adelie

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Maybe I should know this but I am a bit baffled.

I have a Leica M-P 240 with EVF finder plus the Leica R-M adapter as well as the Novoflex R-M adapter.

I have several R lenses - 180 Apo-Telyt, 60 Macro-Elmarit, 100 Macro-Elmar, plus 35-70 and 70-210 Angenieux R lenses plus a few others.

If I mount one of these R lenses on the R-M adapter and setup advanced metering on the Leica M-P240 should I not be able to use "focus peaking" ie the shimmering red outline when I 

adjust the focus ring and see the image magnified?

I know there is a menu item "Lens Detection" - focus peaking works just fine with my 90 mm Summicron M, my 21 mm Super Angulon f/3.4 when I manually set the menu but does the lens detection 

just go up to 135 mm M lenses - ie does focus peaking NOT work with R lenses?

Thanks for any insight to this question

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The digital M bodies with Liveview need the little roller for the rangefinder inside the body to be be activated to have automatic focus peaking when you focus the lens.

Since R-lenses don‘t touch the little roller this will not work. Though you can activate focus peking otherwise. The easiest way is to use the thumbwheel, which you have to set in the menu for focus peaking.  

P.S: Exodies was quicker. The front button is one way to have focus peaking, the thumbwheel may be more comfortable 

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27 minutes ago, UliWer said:

The digital M bodies with Liveview need the little roller for the rangefinder inside the body to be be activated to have automatic focus peaking when you focus the lens.

So is it true that the RF roller merely tells the camera to trigger focus peaking? Peaking simply tells the CPU to do its thing so it seems that R lenses should benefit the same if there were an option to do so with a button push.

No?

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6 hours ago, pico said:

So is it true that the RF roller merely tells the camera to trigger focus peaking? Peaking simply tells the CPU to do its thing so it seems that R lenses should benefit the same if there were an option to do so with a button push.

No?

Read on past the quoted bit from UliWer...

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