Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] M 35mm RF for Leica M3
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 15:14:10 -0400

Perhaps your memory isn't faulty at all. The grip my wife uses is the Leica
version. (She won't shoot M without it!)

Cheers!

kw


>Hi Ken,
>
>Well, I may have been working on bad assumptions and faulty memories.
>The last time I had a goggled lens was in '93 or so, and I thought I
>remembered not being able to mount it with the pre-M grip installed
>(this was the non-Leica, US-made grip that was available before
>Leica's M-grip).  But now you have me wondering whether my memory
>could be entirely wrong.  I thought I was on this planet in '93, but
>maybe not...I"ll have to try a goggled lens soon and see what the
>story really is.
>
>Thanks,
>
>PB
>
>
>On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:23:16 -0400, Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com> wrote:
>
>>Item b. below is of interest to me. I just went and tried
>>mounting/dismounting my wife's 35 RF Summicron from her M3 equiped with
>>M-grip. There was no interference although it was close. Perhaps there is
>>enough difference between the Summaron and the Summicron to account for
>>this?
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>>b. Interference with M-Grips:  If you use, plan to use or might ever
>>>want to use the accessory M-Grip, realize you will have to remove
>>>either the grip or the goggles (some goggles are removeable) each time
>>>you mount and dismount the lens.  I now dislike using my M bodies
>>>without the grip, so this is a pretty big impediment for me.
>
>Paul C. Brodek
>Kobe, Japan
>pcb@iac.co.jp


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