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Aperture Series: Telephone Poles and Snowy Peak (M240)
A distant scene like this is extremely demanding of lens and camera alignment (plane parallelism) lens centering and total performance too, as well as perfect stability to avoid any vibration that could soften details. Happily all these aspects turned out ideally for this example.
Technical
The 280/4 has a robust lens tripod foot which is integral to the lens body, far superior to the lengthy extension tripod foot designs found with Canon and Nikon long telephotos. By keeping the tripod foot short and stocky, stability is enhanced.
Leica R-adapter M used to attach lens, but built-in tripod foot on the 280/4 used to mount lens to tripod. The shutter vibration danger zone for the 280/4 is probably improved relative to the focal length due to the robust tripod foot.
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