We have had some serious health issues with my parents, family turmoil, emotional stress...the works. Now everything looks like is on track to recovery. Finally.
  Today was a day to go out after quite some time to have breakfast outside and enjoy the landscape from this viewpoint.

  Z50II, 24-70 f4s

They look like two young lovers.

I got my Refurbished Z7ii and was curious how good IBIS worked with non-CPU MF lenses.
I put on a CLA'ed Leica-R Elmar 100/4. I got this lens because the image examples on web showed nice bokeh and good sharpness and CA under good control.
It was cheap also and I have never tried Leica-R glass.

I tried it out ISO64 to test IBIS at f/4 at sunset (just a test image from the balcony). It looks like CA is well controlled in this 4-lens design.
I will not use it as macro but just as an all purpose lens. Lens itself goes only 1:3 but exist also as a bellows lens so lens is designed to get close-up.

1/80 sec at f/4. IBIS worked very well I think. There is a difference in rendering compared to Z50. Z7ii looks more "smooth" but I need to se more examples to be sure "smoothness" is not camera shake :-)

The lens was CLA'ed by Mikeno62. It is my lens he is working on here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n4gh7vqoUU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnMrb5OzqPs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9HYsEN7gJ0

There is a Part1 and 2 fixing sticky aperture.
The lens was a bit different from he was used to so it took longer time to find out how to get into the aperture even that it is a rather simple lens with only 4 lens elements.
The last video shows cleaning of lens elements.
Good I did not decided to try this myself!

There are many examples of nice bokeh and good sharpness with this lens like here:
https://www.mu-43.com/threads/leica-100mm-f4-macro-elmar-r.81236/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gondwanareptileproductions/28500862676

I got my for around 180 Euro.
The APO version is much more expensive. Here I would go with the 105/2.8 Z-version. I could probably get two of those for the price of one APO.
It is more fun to find a good lens for less money that can do something special.

Pushing the limits of my phone's megapixels with this crop

Yes, with "trigger" I mean the shutter release button :-)

I "played" with custom setting for FN1 and FN2.
FN1 I set to "100% zoom" to be used for exact focus with MF lenses.
Then for FN2 I set it to "focus peaking". It was set to that in the custom menu but the reality was that FN2 still acted as "AF selector" so switch between AF-C / AF-S etc.
What was the intention to have "focus peaking" assigned to a FN button?     ...on/off or another feature?
I can go into the normal shooting menu and permanently switch it on.
The camera was born with Firmware ver. 1.70 which I think the the latest so far.

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