X2D with Leica, Voigtlander & TTArtisan 3rd Party Lenses

[@andrewtompson6883]

Thanks. Always a pleasure to watch your videos and hear your stories. Wish you lived nearby!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Many thanks, Andrew.

[@PeterAKnipp]

Great Video, Peter, very informative!

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@PeterAKnipp Thank you, Peter.

[@PeterAKnipp]

@ greetings from Palermo! 🙏🏻

[@ScottymanPhoto]

Wow! I love that camera. Very informative and detailed video and the images are excellent. It's always a pleasure, buddy!

[@peterfritzphoto]

Thanks, mate.

[@aetherdingir]

Thank you very much. I use a lot third party lens on my Leica M and Sony a7cii, now I got a Hasselblad 907x with cfv100c and considering to get some third party lens. The examples helped a lot!

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@aetherdingir Thank you, Aether.

[@JimEmbury]

Good thought. Thank you for sharing.

[@EwenBell]

Had no idea the Leica M lenses were an option here. Good result :) I have an old Schneider 50mm TS that was built for Hassleblad, but mine is adapted in EF. I'm going in the wrong direction!

[@peterfritzphoto]

LOL. BTW, I just spent three days shooting in the mountains with the Leica D-Lux 8, and it's absolutely wonderful! It's very cute, but so damn capable. I also took my X2D to Jamieson, but shot 95% of my images with the Leica because it was always to hand, and did everything so well - landscapes, portraits, macro, and even car shots. The colours are lovely, and the resolution is enough if you compose well to begin with (the 24-75 helps a lot with this). Oh, and BTW, that TTArtisan 100mm f/2.8 macro lens (on the R6 MKII) is awesome. Have fun in Nepal!

[@christiantypestar6229]

Thankyou for this summary! For now I do not have an XD2, but I plan to get one in the future.. so this is welcome as I plan to use some "legacy" NON Hasselblad lenses --- Hopefully to manual focus with the XDC should not be a mystery or hard challenge. Thankyou for your insight in this system! Best wishes from Austria Christian

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@christiantypestar6229 Thanks, Christian. 👍

[@dezfoto7534]

Thanks Peter, this was really informative!

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@dezfoto7534 My pleasure!

[@BrandonTalbot]

I really had no Idea that you could adapt M lenses to it. Thanks for this video. I have held off on getting one because the XCD lenses are nigh impossible to find but I have a grip of Leica and voigtlanders I could put on here.

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@BrandonTalbot Good stuff, Brandon. I have a review of the TTArtisan vs the VM 50 f/2 coming up in a few weeks, too.

[@summarity]

Thanks, keep the X2D content coming :)

[@Chris-NZ]

Definitely in your “happy place” Peter 😀

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@Chris-NZ If I’m outside with a camera, I’m definitely in my happy place. And NZ’s South Island was just about the happiest place I’ve been.

[@Chris-NZ]

@@peterfritzphoto I can definitely relate 😀

[@MerriLisaTrigilio]

I have been looking at used Leica R 180mm f/2.8 lenses - what version do you use, APO, non-APO v1 or v2 - gets a bit confusing if you are new to Leica system. Thanks!!

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@MerriLisaTrigilio Indeed! I bought the non-APO Version II 3-cam model off eBay for US$600. It’s outstanding.

[@paulkalliokoski1467]

Thankyou for a great video with beautiful examples! How large was the resolution in the pictures in mean when using the fullframe lenses? Sixty megapixel? Best regards from Sweden! Paul

[@peterfritzphoto]

The square images are about 76 MP, the 2:1 images about 65 MP, and the X-Pan images about 50 MP.

[@paulkalliokoski1467]

@ Thankyou for this interesting information Peter! Best wishes! Paul

[@peterfritzphoto]

@ Thanks, Paul!

[@Arcadia11201]

How much cropping did the Voigtlander 50 APO require?

[@peterfritzphoto]

Perhaps 10%. Typically with the 50 and the 21, I just step back a little if necessary.

[@sebastianloh3800]

Does using electronic shutter affect how you take long exposure (like smoothing out lake surface)? What about (totally opposite) panning shot of someone on a bike? (I am guessing it'd be a 'no' for the second question.)

[@peterfritzphoto]

@@sebastianloh3800 Electronic shutter is fine for moving water and clouds, but no good for panning a moving subject.

[@MerriLisaTrigilio]

How do the Leica lenses compare to the Hasselblad HC series lenses?

[@peterfritzphoto]

I don’t know, sorry. I haven’t tried any of the HC lenses.

[@jakobjohannsson1045]

Nice!

[@ringopaulusch]

7:03 That might not be a good idea since a lot of lenses have focus shift, which means the plane of focus changes on stopping down.

[@peterfritzphoto]

Interesting point - thanks.

[@NetvoTV]

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[@peterfritzphoto]

@@NetvoTV Thanks, but I actually design logos for clients myself. I have a logo, which I use in various places.

[@NetvoTV]

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