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Subject: [Leica] Voigtldr 50mm 3.5 Heliar with the Leica M240 ?
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 07:07:41 +0100
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What's special about this lens, anyway? It is slow, and there are plenty of
other 50mm for the Leica M bodies.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
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On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:51 PM, Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> On Feb 10, 2014, at 2:21 PM, Henning Wulff <henningw at archiphoto.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This has nothing to do with 'adventurous'.
>>
>> Measure it and you will KNOW.
>>
>> I've shot with the Heliar (Tom Abrahamsson's) on the M8, and don't recall
>> any problems.
>
>
> no problems with the M8 or M9 but unknown for the M 240....measurements
> are very ! close, if they are a tiny bit off you will eat your words... so
> be extremely careful, my solution, tape and a rubber band, lock the lens
> fully extended...
>
> better safe than sorry
>
>
> s
>
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