Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/27

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Subject: Re: 70-180 vs. The World
From: "Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 16:17:02 +0000

On 27 Jul 97 at 0:11, Joe Berenbaum wrote:

> At 21:47 26/07/97 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >I might have asked this before, but don't think I saw a confirmation:
> >Does the 70-180 still need focus correction for infrared film, or is 
> >it a true APO in this respect too, just like all other Leica APO primes?
> >Does it show a red dot on the DOF scale, or is this mentioned in the 
> >manual?
> >Willem-Jan Markerink
> 
> The presence or otherwise of the red dot may not mean much. Leica hasn't
> been putting the red dot or any other infrared focusing correction mark on
> its lenses for a long time- regardlesss of whether they were Apos or not. I
> think they consider them to be somewhat misleading since they are only
> really accurate for infinity.

Yep, I know, but in that case it should be mentioned in the lens manual, 
right?

 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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