2 questions about M8 preview

Agreed, you can't attach your M lenses. But I'm surprised that someone with M lenses would want that. I honestly can't fathom holding out a M8 in front of you looking at the LCD to compose. To me, that defeats the entire purpose of a RF, and for that matter, a M.

But that's just me!
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RF's were never made to use telephoto lenses. If you use them, this would not be the camera for you. You are not looking through the lens to focus as you are with a SLR. So you are looking at a tiny, tiny part of the picture to focus. 90 is about the longest you would want to go on a RF. I believe they have 135 but thats pushing it.

The point of a RF was to get close and shoot wide and do it quietly.

No one is claiming this camera is for everyone. It's not as versatile as a SLR.
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Some Leica lenses actually came with "goggles" for telephoto or macro focusing.

For example: http://www.schouten-select.org/Items/135mm2151846.htm

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Steve
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kanefsky said:

Some Leica lenses actually came with "goggles" for telephoto or
macro focusing.

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Neat!

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FZ7 + TC-E17ED

True, but it's a 135 like I mentioned. They don't have big telephoto zoom lenses like bkrownd mentions.

kanefsky said:

How well does this kind of focusing scheme work at the long end
of a nice big telephoto zooooom lens?

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