legacy lens + AF confirm + IS question

lets say i have a AF confirm adapter which can be dialed to a some focal lenght
and i have e-3/30/520 body which has a support for a legacy lens IS .
question does those setting has to be dialed a same on both adapter and IS ?

does is it work at all when a camera see some lens attached to it with adapter ?
or i can dial an IS setting to at any time even with no-legacy lens ?
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Boguslavsky Dimitry said:

lets say i have a AF confirm adapter which can be dialed to a some
focal lenght
and i have e-3/30/520 body which has a support for a legacy lens IS .
question does those setting has to be dialed a same on both adapter
and IS ?
does is it work at all when a camera see some lens attached to it
with adapter ?
or i can dial an IS setting to at any time even with no-legacy lens ?

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When you attach a lens with an AF confirm adapter, the camera sees it as a genuine "digital" lens. So all the information (including the focal length for IS) is received from the AF confirm chip. So whatever you dial in to IS menu has absolutely no effect. It's exactly the same than using ZD lens and using different focal length settings in IS menu, no effect.

However, what you can do is that when you have got the AF confirm from the camera, you press the lens release button and take the shot. This disconnects the lens electronic interface from the camera and thus uses the focal length value stored in the IS menu settings. You won't get any lens metadata this way of course.

So to put it briefly, whatever you input to the IS menu settings, only has effect when there is no lens detected by the camera.

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thanks xargo!

Just got a Leica Elmarit 135 mm. Nice lens and so well made, but it is very cool, almost blue/purple like. I know it is a bit the character of Leica lenses, thats why some prefer for example Carl Zeiss lenses.

Do you make any in camera adjustments to correct this? Like for example; put it on vivid mode or more contrast, different saturation or any other adjustments?
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ok - so i understand i have to configure adapter properly to report correct focal lenght for IS to work correctly ..
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Boguslavsky Dimitry said:

ok - so i understand i have to configure adapter properly to report
correct focal lenght for IS to work correctly ..

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Yes, or you can use the lens without the chip and input the correct focal length to the IS menu.

If you want to check if the IS is working correctly, just turn on the Live View, put it to 10x magnification and hold the IS button. The view should stabilize. It will stabilize somewhat even if the focal length information is wrong but you get the best results if you use correct settings of course.

You can try how it works by programming the chip to 400mm for example and trying a 50mm lens. The camera then overcompensates the vibration and you should see it clearly in LV. If you use too short focal length settings on the other hand, the view stabilizes somewhat but there still some movement left.

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Sculptur said:

Do you make any in camera adjustments to correct this? Like for
example; put it on vivid mode or more contrast, different saturation
or any other adjustments?

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Actually I do it the other way around. When I use my Oly lenses for example I try to tweak the images so I get some kind of feel that I get from the Leica-R glass without any adjustment. Usually I'm too lazy and just shoot with the Leica-R glass though =)

I particularly like the Leica-R bokeh. 150mm ZD has the same look.

Try shooting some colorful flowers with the 135mm, I'm sure you will be stunned by the amount of tiny tonality you will get. Just shoot in RAW and disable all the color noise reduction.

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I will experiment some more. And I'll have to wait till spring for nice flowers or

buy my lady a few flowers soon It is all has a lot to do with preferences, I gues.
Thanks for your replys , very unformative.
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