Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/29/00 9:46:20 AM Eastern Daylight Time, tedgrant@home.com writes: << Now get really daring, (Leica techs will tell you not to do this by the way, don't listen, for they know not what they say) Add the 1.4 to lens first, then the 2X to the 1.4 and you have the magical 800 mm f8.0 >> Are you saying that because of the physical construction of the Leica converters (i.e. protruding elements) or some optical reason? I've been stacking Nikon 1.4X and 2X's for a long time, but it doesn't matter which one goes against the body, unless with certain ones (Nikon makes 3 1.4x's and 3 2X's) they simply won't mate a certain way because the rear element on one sticks too far back into the other one.