Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The world is awash in slow, rare 50's that fit Leica in some fashion, but a collapsing one is a disaster waiting to happen, especially on a digital camera. On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com>wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2014, at 10:07 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > wrote: > > > What's special about this lens, anyway? It is slow, and there are plenty > of other 50mm for the Leica M bodies. > > sharp, small, light, unusual even rare?. > > many other too wonderful 50?s , ask Jeffery. > > > s > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > http://www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Regards, Sonny http://sonc.com/look/ Natchitoches, Louisiana 1714 Oldest Permanent Settlement in the Louisiana Purchase USA