Macro Leica Vario-Elmar 80-200mm f/4 with Leitax adapter on Nikon D7000
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Nikon D7000 with Lens Leica 80-200mm f/4 R mounted with Leitax adapter. Taken hand-held with ISO 800 f/5.6, 1/250s. In order to reduce the minimum focusing distance, I added a Nikon 62mm close-up lens No 5T on a step-up adapter ring 60/62 (the Leica lens has a 60mm filter thread).
It has been a while since I took one of my Leica lenses out for a walk in the forest. I remembered an excellent macro shot of a bee I took with the same set-up. I wanted to test it again and see how crispy the details look under a 100% magnification (actual pixel) of my newly acquired 16 Megapixel camera Nikon D7000.
Under photoshop I enlarged two zones of this picture of a dead tree trunk and the results are amazingly crisp. The DX format of the camera uses only the center of the lens optics therefore making the image very sharp even in the corners/borders. The Leica 80-200mm was already very sharp on FX format starting at aperture f/5.6 and above (vignetting and little soft at f/4). This lens on DX format is sharper at f/4 and eliminates vignetting.
I was thinking of selling it for lack of use due to its manual focus constraint but I think that I should use it more often for these Macro situations where only Manual Focus works anyway. The focus distance of this set-up is about 30cm which is convenient for insects photography.
Macro Leica Vario-Elmar 80-200mm f/4 with Leitax adapter on Nikon D7000
Click here to view larger size photo on black
Nikon D7000 with Lens Leica 80-200mm f/4 R mounted with Leitax adapter. Taken hand-held with ISO 800 f/5.6, 1/250s. In order to reduce the minimum focusing distance, I added a Nikon 62mm close-up lens No 5T on a step-up adapter ring 60/62 (the Leica lens has a 60mm filter thread).
It has been a while since I took one of my Leica lenses out for a walk in the forest. I remembered an excellent macro shot of a bee I took with the same set-up. I wanted to test it again and see how crispy the details look under a 100% magnification (actual pixel) of my newly acquired 16 Megapixel camera Nikon D7000.
Under photoshop I enlarged two zones of this picture of a dead tree trunk and the results are amazingly crisp. The DX format of the camera uses only the center of the lens optics therefore making the image very sharp even in the corners/borders. The Leica 80-200mm was already very sharp on FX format starting at aperture f/5.6 and above (vignetting and little soft at f/4). This lens on DX format is sharper at f/4 and eliminates vignetting.
I was thinking of selling it for lack of use due to its manual focus constraint but I think that I should use it more often for these Macro situations where only Manual Focus works anyway. The focus distance of this set-up is about 30cm which is convenient for insects photography.